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1. Comment - Gates: Blu-ray DRM is 'Anti-Consumer'

   (Oct 17, 2005 - 6:48 PM)

   Regardless of what you might think about DRM, Blu-Ray, or HD, Bill made an underlying comment far more important, "Gates also questioned how much next-gen DVD formats will even matter".
   
   Fact of the matter is DVD and CD type medias in the future may very well only be used for commercial purposes only. I currently use a 80GB portable USB HD. It's about the size of one of the Motorola Razor cell phone. So what happens when we start seeing more USB accepting TVs, DVD Players, etc? Exactly, it won't really matter if you can store 50GB on one disc. You can just pop in a USB HD and stream your movies, music, whatever straight to the output device.
   
   As digital media becomes more dominant everything has been/is leaning more towards one -unit digital data storage. It's only a matter of time till we see people carrying a portable HD to plug into their cars, TVs, computers. I mention USB only because it's currently the best plug n' play standard we have. That could very well change to something better and faster too.
   
   Truth be told, Disc/Tape media is going downhill and as I said before may possibly only be used for initial distribution by companies, but I doubt will be used by the masses in the future.