THX Buries Blu-Ray!
For most people, the DVD optical media is enough. We had the floppy drives, then the CD, now we have the DVD, as well as the Blu-Ray or HD DVD, and while the latest was officially declared "dead," THX stepped ahead and started to dig Blu-Ray's hole before this data storage medium/technology reached its maturity. Why? Let's see...
First, let's point out this is only the personal opinion of a chief scientis at THX, and not an official position, but I can't find anything wrong with its way of thinking. Here's what Laurie Fincham said in an interview with Home Cinema Choice Magazine, when asked about HD DVD's death..."Personally, I think it’s too late for Blu-ray. I think consumers will only become interested in replacing DVD when HD movies becomes available on flash memory. Do we really need another spinning format?"
Indeed, flash memory is getting cheaper with each day, so if you can carry some memory cards in wallet with your favorite movies, instead of some large discs...why not? Even more, your huge movie collection may not have to fill an entire room in the future, which is also a good thing, in my opinion.
"By the time Blu-ray really finds a mass market, we will have 128GB cards. I would guess that getting studios to supply movies on media cards, or offer downloads, will be a lot easier than getting them to sign up to support a disc format," concluded Fincham.
To be honest, I have no plans to move on to Blu-Ray in the next 2 years, and if everything continues to move as it does now, we'll probably replace optical media with flash storage. That's good for me, in fact it's simply great. What about you?
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Interesting point, though.I know the difference between “hole” and “whole”, but thanks for noticing the mistake. Do you consider yourself perfect?
Because I don’t think I am perfect, and things like the (big, I admit it!) mistake above happen, and I apologize for them, but now you don’t have to shoot me for this one…
“…started to dig Blu-Ray’s whole…” Hole. You dig a hole. “Whole” means “entirety”.
“First, let’s point out this is only the personal opinion of a chief scientis at THX, and not an official position, but I can’t find anything wrong with its way of thinking.”
“Scientist” traditionally has a “t” at the end of it. Unless the chief scientist in question is a robot, then you can’t find anything wrong with his or her way of thinking.
If you can’t be bothered to read your own work, why should anyone else?