The End of DVD?

Stuart · 11-02-2005, 17:26

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.

Quote:

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.

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

jtribe · 12-02-2005, 20:21

Dont agree with him myself, im one of those people who is allways messing about with the system so I am allways backing up to DVD. To do this to cd is a pain and I cant afford a tape(not that I think they are better for a home PC) Also I make back ups of all my young sons DVD's as his grubby little fingers can reck a film in minutes, so I just give him the copies and leave the originals safe till he knows how to handle them.(mind you hes 6 and has his own ebay account for his toys, so that wont be to long).

AndrewJ · 12-02-2005, 20:31

Sweet to hear however with the invent of larger hd's upto 1tb or more and raid and all that becomming common place, surely we will be using hd playback more and more.

Legal mp3 sites and movie download sites may just actually kick off, because even with online price being cheaper dvd-rs and cd-rs get expensive after a while and scratch...i know having movies on a 2nd hd and with a backup onto a external hd I would be happy.

punky · 12-02-2005, 20:34

There will always be a place for some form of portable disposable storage media. DVDs are on their way out, but only because Blu-Ray (and some others) are coming.

MovedGoalPosts · 12-02-2005, 20:35

Er perhaps someone ought to talk to the ISPs first and ask them not to put silly cap levels on broadband accounts, otherwise VOD and the like will be a non starter :sprint: