Actually, I believe Blue-ray and the related optical disc technology is a dead end road. The more bits it tries to pack into the disc, the more easy it gets scratch and not usable. And it also require more precise control of servo system to read back the data and the cost goes up.
As price of solid state chip goes down, I believe in the future, every type of data are stored in a flash like device. No more moving parts in your player/computer. Imagine your future purchase of a movie is just a thumb size chip, how wonderful it will be!
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Actually, I believe Blue-ray and the related optical disc technology is a dead end road. The more bits it tries to pack into the disc, the more easy it gets scratch and not usable. And it also require more precise control of servo system to read back the data and the cost goes up. As price of solid state chip goes down, I believe in the future, every type of data are stored in a flash like device. No more moving parts in your player/computer. Imagine your future purchase of a movie is just a thumb size chip, how wonderful it will be!