Comments on: Guess What? Blu-ray Is Obsolete Already

By: perkster

perkster — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:48:48 +0000

optical is all dead, the way SSD and flash disks are going, rise of netbooks without optical drives, music and movies by download instead of buying discs.

By: David M

David M — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:09:30 +0000

I better go throw my player in the trash. Next week the stores stop selling the disks because its “obsolete” now.

By: MartYn

MartYn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:26:11 +0000

But its all relative to when this mega disc is released to the general public and we all have hardware that can support it. By then we might all have 10TB hard drives and it won’t seem like such a big deal.

By: SupaChalupa

SupaChalupa — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:23:08 +0000

Yeah but with current disk drives reading a 500 GB disk would take a while, not to mention most home computers would choke on that much data.

By: Udo Werner

Udo Werner — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:27:04 +0000

My question is in regards to the new USB 3.0.do you think that there would be an adapter to go between the USB 2.0 to convert -3.0 without having to upgrade to a new machine.I currently have 10 USB`s on my PC & don`t intend to upgrade for awhile. Thx. Love your site Guys.Live,love & laugh. Doesn`t cost you a dime!!!lol.Have a great week.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:00:50 +0000

Blu-ray won’t go away overnight, no question – however the holographic disc is not just another next-gen tech introduction. This is the first optical disc we’ll have as consumers (hopefully) that actually goes beyond the surface, literally. I sincerely hope GE really pushes this and sends top-layer-only optical media to its grave. You know as well as I that I can’t stand optical media in its current state, even with Blu-ray. It’s about time a company introduced something better.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:42 +0000

I think saying it’s obsolete is a bit far fetched. As it only recently won the HD format war, it’ll be a few years before it’s actually done and dusted.
There’s always a new tech ready to replace something else, but until it goes mainstream and becomes standard, I think it’s safe to say Blu-ray will be here to stay for a long while yet