Samsung: Blu-ray dead in 5 years!

[Ruined]

Samsung: Blu-ray Will Be Dead in Five Years

Kinda makes my stomach turn with all of the movies I have...

Originally Posted by Andy Griffiths, Samsung UK's director of consumer electronics

I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10." Sad, really, since he believes 2008 is finally Blu-ray's year (we agree, by year's end, it'll have finally found its stride).

[dugpa]

Dead? No. Maybe lessened a bit due to downloads. Possibily. Look at how long laserdisc survived along side VHS. CDs still exist and sell reasonabily well and can be found in stores, even though music downloads have really taken off. There always will be a need for physical media. While downloads may start to be come more popular, as they have with music, they won't kill off the disc completely. So blu-ray being "dead" is an overstatement and outright silly. Also a strange thing for someone to say who should be trying to sell their blu-ray players. If I was a stockholder in Samsung I'd be raising a snit. What kind of idiot tells everyone their own products have no future?

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by dugpa

Dead? No. Maybe lessened a bit due to downloads. Possibily. Look at how long laserdisc survived along side VHS. CDs still exist and sell reasonabily well and can be found in stores, even though music downloads have really taken off. There always will be a need for physical media. While downloads may start to be come more popular, as they have with music, they won't kill off the disc completely. So blu-ray being "dead" is an overstatement and outright silly. Also a strange thing for someone to say who should be trying to sell their blu-ray players. If I was a stockholder in Samsung I'd be raising a snit. What kind of idiot tells everyone their own products have no future?

Perhaps Toshiba/Samsung are working on a flash memory-based format? Both are heavy investors in flash ram and neither has an HD format to call their own...

[Derb]

Well duh, Of course Samsung's Blu-Ray players won't last 5 years. Err wait, they mean the format.. nevermind. I stopped taking that company seriously years ago.

[No6PackJoe]

Everyone I talk to, talks about setting up media servers, and having access to a wider variety of media, the internet has really opened this up, and it is putting a great deal of pressure on physical media, my wife is talking about getting an apple TV, like our friends have. I personally don't like it cuz it pales in comparison to Blu-Ray, but the selection availible at our local Blockbuster leaves a lot to be desired, and I don't want to own everything, but when I buy I like to own a physical disk, not a digital DRM protected file of lower quaility, but thats just me.

This is not just a virtue of online booksellers; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo! Launch to songs in the iTunes Music Store and Rhapsody. People are going deep into the catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video, Tower Records, and Barnes & Noble. And the more they find, the more they like. As they wander further from the beaten path, they discover their taste is not as mainstream as they thought (or as they had been led to believe by marketing, a lack of alternatives, and a hit-driven culture).

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail