Next-gen DVD war could be messy--or not

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It will possibly be a battle for survival...

for both formats. Both of these storage formats add only a small increment in capacity like maybe 4x from DVD DL to Blu-Ray. Neither gives enough capacity to do a full volume backup on a real server drive, so I am not thinking that the backups will be swapping disks. If for some reason I do, I'd rather swap the cheapest ones even if it is a few more times.

As far as video storage goes, I say again who cares. Does anyone here remember Laser Disks? I do and I have used them. The picture was great but not enough to justify the factor of 4 to 10 in expense. I do remember walking into HalTed, in Sunnyvale, and buying a new Pioneer laser disk player for 70 bucks from a stack of fifty or so in order to salvage the laser and optics from the unit. That was the success of the laser disk and it was due soley to small increment in image quality/resolution versur huge increment in cost.

Now I know there are a lot of "early adopters" that ran out and bought HD sets for huge amounts of money because it was cool and made them feel something, I don't know, trendy, superior, better than the Joneses. My brother and sister are among these and both are up to their eyeballs in debt but the Best Buy financing was irresistable. These people will undoubtedly want to buy into the new HD disk player technology if only to justify the money already wasted on the set. But many may not be able too because they're still paying for that set (and a bunch of other things they didn't really need). Well maybe my brother and sister can get another, new home equity line of credit and go for it. Personally, I wish they would save for their kids education, but I am just a cheap, old sot.

But really, the only way either of these can survive is for the retailers to provide another bump in the credit limits they give to the already debt saddled masses. They have been doing this for the last decade but maybe they can seduce the sheeple a little more. And with the new bankruptcylaws, the retailers and banks may be able to force them into indentured servitude but they won't be watching HD.

Posted by: msolgeek   Posted on: 08/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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