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Originally Posted by mikij
I wont certainly go with them (I don't need the cheapest, plastic reader, I need the quality). Yes, they are going cheap but we'll see the results. They are opposite of Sony, which always tries to give the best possible quality to customers (but sometimes fail, like in Beta, and sometimes win, like in Blu-Ray).
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Blu-Ray was obsolete before it was launched.
I expect it's run will be no more than four years, tops.
Because HD downloads are so prevalent, and because SD cards and thumb drives have zero moving parts, expect even larger laptops to drop optical drives by 2013. SDXC will hold 2 terrabytes of removable storage with minimum heat generation and minimal chance of mechanical failure.
Sony could have launched Blu Ray two or three years earlier, were it not for wasting time in wrangling for exclisivity against the other proposed high definition DVD formats. In this case, time wasted was truely opportunity lost