Comments on: What’s Next After Blu-Ray?

By: Lamini

Lamini — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:25:50 +0000

I, for one, am sick of the buzz word “Cloud”. Like its something new, like we haven’t already been using it for a couple decades. I am so sick of depending on internet or LAN connectivity in order to achieve any connectivity. Sick because all the pop-ups, ads, bandwidth issues inherent to everyone else hogging up resources and just sharing in general. I pay this much dollars not so I can share and be limited because of others actions and/or limitations. You can keep the “cloud”, and I’ll stick to whats been working, my own equipment. No one can get any work done while waiting for the network to come back up after an outage. The more we allow these online services, the more we say its OK to put up with advertisements, advertisements that take up resources, mine and theirs, multiplied by millions. Not even going to talk about adult advertisements that kids can see.

I’ll stick to whatever does not depend on an internet connection, the digital salesmen, etc, if I have a choice.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:24:55 +0000

Again, we’re not talking necessarily about tomorrow for the change. Digital rights will eventually be the initial rights. Eventually. As far as download, people don’t care about downloading, they simply don’t trust that their information is truly safe if it’s beaming across a network.

Hypothetic: A handheld transfer module (card or similar) for media shopping in person with built in banking. Straight download for home purchase (online).

Any way they do it, people won’t want their “property” housed on servers. If the server gets attacked, hacked, or goes down… think of the potential outcry.

Just thinking out loud.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:45:24 +0000

A lot of you have said that you believe the future is direct download. I am not so sure the public will go for that as being their only option. I think you all underestimate the desire to own a hard copy. Direct download is limited, you have tons of digital rights limitations, you can’t resell the media or lend it out to a friend.

By: Marcus Poulin

Marcus Poulin — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:48:44 +0000

Probably eventually something Plasmonic and into the Yottabyte ranges and that is certainly needed.

CD is 780 nanometers and 670 MB of storage

DVD is 650 nm and 4.7 GB

Blu-Ray 405 nm 25 to 50 GB

So imagine down to 30 or 40 nanometer chip features with surface wave plasmons and encoding down to that level and using an attosecond to encode the data?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:17:54 +0000

OMG. Hilarious comparisons. We can’t use usb flash drives for movies because the video can’t be accessed fast enough from that little stick. If you insisted on using a flash drive, you would have to install the 50+GB movie on your disk player first and then play it from the player, which would take time that no one wants to deal with. Then that would mean that the player would need a massive hard drive. And I’m not even going to start with the copyright issues from installing a movie on your hard drive and potentially giving them away to thousands of other people. The future is no disk at all. In the future, your player will receive a network similar to cable tv or satellite. If you bought the movie, your data will be stored at a far away facility ready to broadcast it to you whenever you select it from your menu.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:11:10 +0000

Good point. We’ve got companies like Apple and Blockbuster that have invested in the online distribution channel. Assuming that our devices can talk to the ‘cloud’, we may not need anything portable at all. Well, at least not a portable device just for storing data.

By: Jordan Kettner

Jordan Kettner — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:51:45 +0000

I have followed exactly the same thought process. But I think that it goes one step further than a USB flash drive.

I think that interfaces like Apple TV and other home theater hard drive systems will take over. Buy your movies online and automatically sync to your laptop, desktop, and TV hard drive. Or as bandwidth allows have it all stored on a personal movie server and stream it to your computer, tv, or phone on demand.

This technology already exists, but in my opinion it is only being slowed down by the maximum allowable adoption rate.