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While the tech companies argue over which next-generatoin DVD format is likely to be the “winner,” and media companies try to push as much as they can on the current DVD before getting everyone to buy (the same) stuff in the new format, the whole removable format concept is going the way of the dinosaurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good. The longer it takes, the less chance any format of DVD has of having a place in the future of home entertainment. Don’t look now, but the price and size of hard drives have fallen like a rock, while capacities have soared, with no slowdown in site.
\nWhich leads to the question — What is the best way to distribute content? DVDs which will be limited in capacity to 9.4gbs on a single DVD for another year, and then after that 50gbs on a single disk for years to come after that, or rewritable media that can hold 2gb already in a device half the size of a pen, or in a hard drive that can hold 200GBs plus in a drive the size of your cell phone?<\/p>\n

With electronic delivery of media, the idea of CD racks and DVD shelves, etc., suddenly sounds like having a carriage house or a coal chute …<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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