Do you think CDs and Blu-rays will be around in 10 Years?

The last time I bought a CD was in 2008; I have purchased my music mainly from iTunes since then. And the only reason I buy a Blu-ray disc is if there is a movie I really want or if there is a PlayStation game available that I cannot download from the PSN Store. I personally cannot see a CD or Blu-ray in my life in 10 years. What do you think?

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asked Aug 18 '12 at 00:13

Michaelgaul96
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If digital downloads can beat me finding blu-ray movies at full 1080P with extras, no compression and for under five dollars we may be going somewhere, at this time they want well over twice as much (based on what I find movies for) for a lower quality compressed digital download, no thanks, I will stick with optical media for now unless they can do it right.

Will they still be around in a decade? Likely will be, even partly for the season above, digital downloads kill the used market of which a ton of money can be saved, personally I prefer to say money and do not go out buying movies when first released for the most part.

Optical media is not currently dead because a few people choice to believe it is or not use it personally. I like being able to run into CDs for a dollar as they are cheaper then digital, I also like to find DVDs for hardly over a dollar. Not found of the space they take up so I use a space saving method to deal with that.

There is still possible DRM with movies and the fact you cannot trade, sell, or give away digital media. With all these factors the only thing digital media has going for it is ease of use and it is space saving.

answered Aug 19 '12 at 16:20

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0	I think they'll still be around and sold, but it'll be like walking into Walmart and asking for a VHS tape... answered Aug 18 '12 at 00:48 catchatyou 20.7k●89●165●383

0	I think that hard packaging media is so expensive and risky that it will be done away with by then. I guess there will be a few fossils on the shelves though. answered Aug 18 '12 at 01:00 ClosetFuturist 1.7k●6●14●27

Give me 1gb/s inbternet then I'll stop buying DVD's well, I can't say that, I've been forced to use google play and steam, so yes they'll be around, popular, maybe as records are today, or in a apocalyptic scenario where there is no real internet or source of data.

answered Aug 18 '12 at 01:52

pjob797
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0	I hope not. I've always hated optical media; they're too slow. answered Aug 18 '12 at 03:05 jon20c 151●8●10●21

I say no way! In our house we have 5 people both young and old and none of us have anything that can play a Disk of any type, I think there already dead, I guess they will still be around for the people who like to have the physical copy of their media. Good question!

answered Aug 18 '12 at 04:43

Lewitje
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yeah they will still be around because so many have been sold and still selling at this point , how ever the format will be done gone in less then 10 year it will be hard to find the dvd or blueray players the lase disc is already shifting toward obsolete..

Not one of the new platforms for computing include a laser drive no cd/dvd player or burners if you read the blog of electronic company's you will see they are not predicting the end of the laser disc they are saying clearly in the next 5 to 6 year they will be pretty much gone from store shelves there might be one or 2 company's selling over priced players ..

most computers in the new future will not use hard drive device as they do today they , if you check spec on new tablets coming out the standard is 32 gb drive on a non expandable system though win8 PC version can deal with more it to is set up to be cloud based , the future is for them to run on just a flash drive boot from the internet for those who think they would never use a computer with such a OS if you are using a chrome browser no matter what OS you already do ina way the browser runs from cloud service and asks as the dektop ..

for anyone who would argue its not possible Chrome already runs from the cloud many ay know this some not google has the patent on the first internet OS for computer called chrome OS that was awarded just a few weeks ago ..

answered Aug 18 '12 at 07:11

jadtechnic
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I think the CD/blue ry will sill be around. Maybe in in a different format of cd. But It will still be around. How else your going to burn your favourite distro of linux onto a media disk.

answered Aug 18 '12 at 09:33

Compucore
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your not its that simple :)

already if you look most company send thereImages for cost and the way all are moving to is flash drive soon im sure we will be hear about the ROM flash drive ..

on top of that everything is moving to the cloud and more and more electronic devices are being locked you buy the device you want with the system and service you want the device is not changeable or upgradeable . the new stuff is going to be all virtual boot from the internet..

old machnies will run till they can't and as replacement parts get harder to find in time they will all become atic museum items

there will most likely always be hard drive digit or solid state and computers of a nature as long as there is a needs for servers how ever the driver side of the os that tell the hardware how and when to run can run on fixed storage its already done.. though they are starting to develop raspberry pi sized and priced equipment good enough to be servers..

(Aug 18 '12 at 09:38) jadtechnic

Yeah but still Call me an old folgy on this. What buy a system with a disk image on the drive. When you have a version of your favorite OS on cd or DVD fr that matter. I still don't have a need for the cloud personally over here. Since I have my data backed up on either external drives or a SCSI tape back up when I need to unload it from there data wise. Music I don't really listen to on my computer over here .So for me personally to have a cloud as an option is kind of pointless. Even if they were giving it away. I would not really be in need of it while I have use of what I have right now. Its a matter of preference. for what media each individual would want to have on their computers

(Aug 18 '12 at 23:12) Compucore

Sorry, didn't read completely though your comments, but you can already put A linux distro, and soon Windows 8 onto a boot-able flash drive, and all newer PCs can boot from a usb drive, and in Microsoft's case, with how they've been acting we'll be forced to drop current media, Which Microsoft is really starting to get me mad when they're forcing us to follow their lead now, which has only started the past few months

(Aug 19 '12 at 18:35) pjob797

I still prefer on good old CD or dvd over here. I have had several flash drives failed me already from being over used for what I do as a technician over here. Properly stored cd's and dvd is still the thing for me over here pjob797. Some like to use flash drives to boot or load operating systems. And there are guys like me who like using cd or dvd's to load them into the computer.

(Aug 19 '12 at 21:08) Compucore

As long as people keep buying, they'll be on the shelves and ready for purchase.

answered Aug 18 '12 at 10:27

Caelan
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not true :)

there are plenty of people out there willing to buy VHS players and tapes Go looking on them shelves out there tell me what you find :)

you can still get vhs ina few tucked away places very hard to find and it is very costly and old new stock left overs from a time long ago ..

there are people out there with many hundreds of thousands invested in VHS, Beta max, Reel to reel, 8 track, cassettes , and records that would give anything to be able to use them affordabily how ever each time there is a shift it cheaperless costly to go with the flow and start over now the trend is to purchase only the ights to play not to have or own since that never made sense from the start you never really owned a movie only the right to watch it personally ..

its always been illegal to copy distribute or display them for others freely with out agreement ..

if you beleive some of the changesd in the industry are not related to that you are mistaken , the people with there livily hood built around computers and internet will do everything in there power to keep government from regulating in ways that can harm them and there businesses

(Aug 18 '12 at 10:43) jadtechnic

you might wonder or have trouble linking it all together but its not all that hard really :)

for that matter blogging and blog networks is most popular form of social media today, how did it get that way :)

the likes of C|net zdnet you wonder how this ties technology into media these are large most earlyer sucesful exsamples of blog networks , they have there start and are owned built with money from the likes of disney, fox, CBS, USA network , sifi network, clear channel radio, Microsoft , AOL ..

they are connected to the first early magzines on consumer computer, there are radi networks cable net works around these they are very popular blogs for sure ..

other s are MSnbc,CNN, google tech companys and media movie and music industry are tightly link and even more so remember AOL once owned TWC they to are rights holds to much of the music and movies as is Ted turner former owner and founder of CNN turn movie classic ..

consider this there are people out there using there TW high speed broad band to down load movies and music illgally that is owned by Time waren useing there service to streal from them how bold and wrong is that ???

how many times has this been done with microsoft and other companys disney pixar USA net work AOL

(Aug 18 '12 at 11:15) jadtechnic

you take a really really good look at the history of the big company's of today on the internet where the money that built them came from and tel me the development and research in technology is nt linked in ways to governments trying to regulate and piracy ..

in some ways the internet is self governed, there are things that dont need regjulating from outside governments the company's who built what here are in control of the technology we use if its abused they can remove ways its abused yes it will take years but regulation would
not work at all jailing and fining has never been the answer there is always some one else wiling to take the challange and risk ..

(Aug 18 '12 at 11:27) jadtechnic

0	I suppose maybe then they will still be around but i probably wont be using them ! About to buy a new computer im looking at one of the Lenovo Ultrabooks so that rules out an optical drive for me ! answered Aug 18 '12 at 21:23 Michaelgaul96 1●1●1●1

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