Thread: Shazkin:Ebooks may be eighty per cent of the book market in a few years
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Old 09-27-2011, 03:12 PM   #14
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A lot of pundits were skeptical about blu-ray from the beginning.

1. It is.still a mechanical media with all the heat generation and component failure that entails.

2. The SDXC flashcard standard goes up to a 2Tb capacity. Blu-ray got leapfrogged by a smaller more ubiquitous media.

3. A lot of people prefer the immediacy of purchacing a download. You can save a download to a card or thumbdrive as easily as.to a bulky Blu-ray disk.

4. For those.who use small viewing screens, the higher definition is not only wasted....it makes file conversions take even longer.
From Steve-O:

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Straight from El Jobso's mouth at today's notebook keynote: "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."
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