Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 14, 2004 @01:20AM from the tim-predicts-vhs-obsolete-10-years-ago dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not to say that Mr. Gates has been wrong before (sarcasm), but now he is claiming that DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years. As this post claims, I would have to disagree with the world's richest man and say that compact disk media is here to stay for a while because there is just no substitute for a media that cost cents." (And since SMH is going registration only, thanks to the anonymous reader who points out two non-registration sites -- FlexBeta and Yahoo! -- to read the same wire story, and for the observation that not all of Gates' predictions pan out.)

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That's fine as long as... by suso · 2004-07-14 01:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

there is a way to transfer the existing format to whatever is next without any data loss.

I imagine that the next thing will be little cylindrical holographic storage devices. Or something to that effect. Where would you put the label though?
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1. Re:H4H4H4H4!! by scoot241 · 2004-07-14 02:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
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