Bill Gates: DVDs doomed in less than 10 years..

What does he plan to replace them with...?

Maybe he thinks/means "not mechanical stuff", like memorycards etc.
Usb-sticks....

But who knows

after reading the rest of the story...I'm assuming that the TV will be loaded to do everything...

...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."

Stick a Tv Tuner in a computer make better software, there you go
Blue Ray disks can hold up to 50gig so thats a good start

Dunno. I just want to have local copies of some movies. Suppose I didn't have cable or internet for while? No movies!

divx, xx.

I, Robot, here we come, except in the form or televisions!

Seriously though, I'd like to see something like USB sticks. They seem much tougher.

Bill Gates also had the vision of 1 video game console that would play everygame available for every sytem. Until he realized just how much money xbox was gonna make him. X Box was supposed to be that all purpose console. Microsoft is just trying to get their hands into everything.

I personally think the furture of television is going to be what I'd call On-Demand TV. Where you could basically load any movie/tv-show etc... within a minute or so and watch it.. no matter what the movie or show was.

Basically the shows would download over high-speed connections. No more needing massive amounts of storage space, DVD's laying around everywhere or waiting for the show to come on so TIVO can record it.. ha... you just put in, I want 'The Jeffersons' and you could watch every episode in any order you choose.

TaoX do you subscribe to Insight Digital, because my cable service has alreay patented On-Demand TV

Anyone remember this famous quote from "a guy" predicting the future?

"640k Should Be Enough for Anybody."

Lol, I was about to say just that

Only time will tell and I shudder to think that MS is leading the way in such technology.

I love how Bill makes these kind of statements, bet a couple months from now you'll see a new road map for a new technology microsoft is making to replace dvd's and cd's. Not that it's a bad thing, just funny how he will say one thing and do another..

He said the same about the internet years ago...

Just a shot in the dark here, but I'm guessing it will be replaced eventually by a system where you pay a subscription/monthly fee, browse a database and pick whatever movie, show, etc. you want to watch and it starts streaming from your entrtainment provider's server.

I would just like to know if bill gates will be obsolete in ten year's. or will he be preprogramed to think he know's what WE want in a OS. >.

I'm sure whatever the Great Prophet Billy-Bob envisions will be proprietary to MS, so that all we peasants can come pay tithes and offerings at the altar of the great Redmond Giant, grateful for whatever system is decreed by by the All-Seeing, All-Knowing, Eye-of-Gates!

Well, I just read an acticle on CNET about this and basically they are trying to head toward what could be called a home medai network. Of which means that all your movies are on a network, probably streamed to you through the Internet2 lines or some sort of cable, save what we want, when we want it and play it later.

I think there will still be live broadcasts and people will flock to them to "see it first" but you could just put it on the network and maybe even access it on the road even through remote (like in your car or big SUV... besides why have all those movie screens and not play movies or go on the internet?)

Its on CNET (or just check out my blog on JoeUser. its one of the links archive posts. Half the story is there (or less) and the other half is on CNET)

Surely the next 'big thing' in own-your-own media will be solid state.....memory card storage and distribution of audio and video....no moving parts....and using logic access rather than 'transport buttons'.

That would be a logical progression....prior to streaming access direct, or alongside it at least.

I remember eons ago, when magnetic 'swipe' cards [eg. credit cards] came out a friend and I pondered their eventual use as media formats....and now flash memory sticks are all the rage supplanting cd burning as a reasonable-sized data portability method...

Give me a shock resistant 50GB hard drive to hold my music library in my car stereo or portable "boom-box" and I'll agree.

If size of bit information size were to be down to just atoms, something solid state the size of one cube inch would be more than entire state worth of media storage.

I'll bet that by that time we would be laughing on how small GB, TB and even Exabit were.

I'm sure thats enough storage for movie done in *3d* hologram.