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DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years: Bill Gates
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Posted on 07/13/2004 12:39:39 PM PDT by YoungHickey

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FRANKFURT (AFP) - DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years at
the latest, Microsoft boss and founder Bill Gates
(news - web sites) predicted.

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Asked what home entertainment would like in the future,
Gates said that DVD technology would be "obsolete in
10 years at the latest. If you consider that
nowadays we have to carry around film and music on
little silver discs and stick them in the computer,
it's ridiculous," Gates said in comments reproduced
in German in the mass-circulation daily Bild.

"These things can scratch or simply get lost."

Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that
will simply show what we want to see, when we want
to see it. When we get home, the home computer will
know who we are from our voice or our face. It will
know what we want to watch, our favourite
programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to
see."


TOPICS: Announcements; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 8tracksrule; billgates; cd; compactdisc; dvd; eighttracktapes; lovemy8track; microsoft; stillusingmybetamax; vcr; video; videoplayer
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To: cinFLA
Approximately $30,000?

That's the capacity of the thing, but that was my first thought when I saw that also. The point is, for music there's already more capacity than anyone could use. I've got about 600 songs (most burned from CD's), but quite a few downloaded from iTunes, and it takes up a little over 1 gig. When I think back on all my old records, 8 tracks, cassettes, etc, though, it is a little scary how much money I've spent on music. Unfortunately, almost all my old records are too scratched to be listenable, and I think that's true for a lot of people. Dittos with eaten cassettes, scratched CD's, etc. If you collect movies or music over a period of years, you've got quite an investment, and right now I could fill a closet with the DVDs and video cassettes we've got. It would be great to have a storage device that would work like an iPod for movies.

161 posted on 07/13/2004 2:44:10 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
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To: Hat-Trick
What happens when my wife and I walk in the door at the same time? Will the television show the Avalanche Hockey Game or Trading Spaces?

No, it will go to Bravo and show people trading hockey.

162 posted on 07/13/2004 2:46:22 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
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To: monday; YoungHickey
>Your TV is forcing you to watch reality shows now?

Is your computer
forcing you, now, to look at
the pic of Paris?

But I bet you did.
That's how TV gets to you.
It's just there to see . . .






163 posted on 07/13/2004 2:50:43 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: YoungHickey
DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years

So will I

164 posted on 07/13/2004 2:50:50 PM PDT by paul51
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL -- great thread.

I guess they didn't know how to deactivate it 2 years ago.


165 posted on 07/13/2004 2:55:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: Pylot
>I can't name a single storage medium since the 8 track that has lasted 10 years without becoming obsolete. Except paper

Don't forget canvas.
Pretty darn good for storing
full-color pictures!





166 posted on 07/13/2004 2:55:45 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Pylot
I can't name a single storage medium since the 8 track that has lasted 10 years without becoming obsolete.

CD's have been around since the 80's (http://www.oneoffcd.com/info/historycd.cfm)

167 posted on 07/13/2004 2:57:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I want to die in my sleep like Gramps -- not yelling and screaming like those in his car)
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To: YoungHickey
When we get home, the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face. It will know what we want to watch, our favourite programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to see."

If this is based on the same technology that Amazon.com uses for its "The Page You Made", then it will never work. Amazon still can't make sense of me--someone that buys Bob Wills, Billie Holiday and George Will all in one shopping trip.

168 posted on 07/13/2004 2:59:29 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Free Brigitte Bardot.)
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To: Rebelbase
"I'll check but the last time I looked my dad still had his stereo console cabinet in the living room. I believe the turntable was still in working order. Stashed alongside was an album rack filled with Perry Como records, my mom's favorite"

*************

Sounds like my Dad, too, only last time I checked it was Herb Albert and the Tiajuana Brass.

Some people sneer at the "Ameriachi" music, but *I* think your dad has good taste. :-)

169 posted on 07/13/2004 3:05:53 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Diplomats. The best diplomat I know of is a fully loaded phaser bank" - Cdr. Montgomery Scott)
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To: we_will_prevail

WOW! I actually had and played that Four Seasons tape in my '66 Galaxy 500!


170 posted on 07/13/2004 3:15:31 PM PDT by TalBlack ("Tal, no song means anything without someone else....")
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To: YoungHickey

bttt


171 posted on 07/13/2004 3:16:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: steplock

Sounds great in theory. But I can imagine talking to Tech Support for 3 hours so I can rent a movie and get my lights to turn on and off. :)


172 posted on 07/13/2004 3:18:08 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: stands2reason

I did! I luv Herb Alpert! also "Love is Blue" and "The Earth" "The Sea" and "The Sky"


173 posted on 07/13/2004 3:22:45 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: stands2reason

I did! I luv Herb Alpert! also "Love is Blue" and "The Earth" "The Sea" and "The Sky"


174 posted on 07/13/2004 3:22:49 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: Mr. Bird

At Bell South we tried to go paperless years ago. The slow down was such that folks just stacked more and more paper throughout the office as reference points. The computers were too slow! The paperless office became a joke. I've been retired about four years, so perhaps the situation has changed.


175 posted on 07/13/2004 3:25:27 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: YoungHickey

I think he's right. Bandwidth is increasing rapidly, and from that all else follows.


176 posted on 07/13/2004 3:26:42 PM PDT by neutrino (Hermes: God of trade and thieves.)
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To: YoungHickey
Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that will simply show what we want to see, when we want to see it. When we get home, the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face. It will know what we want to watch, our favourite programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to see."

So... the computer revolution was all part of lonely young William Gates's master plan to build himself a friend. Who knew?

177 posted on 07/13/2004 3:33:00 PM PDT by x
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To: stands2reason

I sure enjoyed looking at that album cover when I was a kid.


178 posted on 07/13/2004 3:35:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (If peace is patriotic why are they ashamed to fly the Flag?)
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To: JayNorth
Way cool man you were in that fight too! Brothers in arms, I wrote tons of nasty letters to congress, and Demon City, telling them we would never buy from them again if Dickey not so Sharp forced DIVX down our throats. I also went numerous time into their stores and talked people out of buying DIVX Praise the Lord it worked!! Demon City lost over 20+ MILLION dollars, tons of customer support and Richard Sharp found himself out on the street. Sure he went away with tons of money but still, we won, Sharp's name is MUDD and OPEN source DVD has just skyrocketed!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure DVD may be obsolete in 10, but the good news is you don't have to pay for it EVERY IME YOU WATCH IT, which seems to be what Bill Gates has in mind for our VIDEO future. Only this time he wants up to pay him directly instead of Demon City, Sharp and his Lawyer pals. As for me, I will stick to DVD's, besides if they become obsolete, they will be cheap to purchase... "out with the old and in with the new," great way to build my library :o)

P.S. Since the DIVX debacle my family and I have bought less than $80 worth of merchandise from Circuit City and we are not alone, Divx and CC's "lets screw the public and get filthy rich in the process" attitude hurt em BIG TIME!

179 posted on 07/13/2004 4:44:31 PM PDT by Jmouse007
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To: freedumb2003
The Wall Streen Journal doesn't allow you to see the archive, but I found the article on another site.

If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here's How to Set It Straight : http://www.bmedia.org/archives/00000223.php

180 posted on 07/13/2004 6:02:07 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You can lead a liberal to the facts but you can't make him think.)
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