The Chief Executive of Alcatel has announced that he thinks DVD is a "flash in the pan" and will soon be going to an early grave.
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Originally Posted by Alcatel
Speaking at the opening of the Alcatel Forum in Paris, Serge Tchuruk told delegates that cheap and widely available broadband services will sound the death knell for the popular storage medium.
Recent network price drops are just the start of a longer term trend that would see video downloading kill off the DVD, he claimed.
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Now, while I do see that there is a market for Video on Demand (which seems to be the basis of what he is describing), I doubt this will happen anytime soon. Why? Partly because too many people have DVD players and partly because I don't believe our broadband networks are up to the job (not yet anyway).
Bear in mind the source however. He works for Alcatel. It's in his interest to tell people that the Internet will take over things like this as by doing so, he may sell more network hardware.
What do you guys think? The article is at
http://www.pcw.co.uk/news/1161117