Blue-ray has won the battle
Now that Blue-ray has won the battle with Toshiba and their rival product HD-DVD, what’s next? Now its time to gear up for the war. Blue-ray won’t be lucky enough to enjoy a decade as the format of choice for consumers around the world. In fact, they’ll be lucky to make it 1 year.
The big winner in the format was, surprisingly is Microsoft. Did you wonder why Microsoft never made HD-DVD standard in their XBox 360’s? They new that Blue-ray would win the battle with Toshiba. They also new that digital downloads would be the successor to blue-ray.
Netflix, a purveyor of rental discs, obviously saw the writing on the wall, instituting its Watch It Now feature last year. Amazon.com, which sells plenty of packaged media, has its own Unbox video download service.
Perhaps most importantly, consumers will continue to get more and more comfortable with the idea of their library being digital. We’re already there with music and family pictures, and it’s a relatively easy transition to make to one’s movie collection.
The biggest roadblock for the move to digital movies is available bandwidth, but that too is becoming less of an obstacle. Companies such as Verizon and Comcast seem to be improving bandwidth to consumers on a daily basis.
With all this in mind, don’t jump too quickly on the Blue-ray bandwagon as you could save some money by waiting for a fully functional download option.
Posted on February 24, 2008
By Jason Spence
Filed Under Technology |
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