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Samsung: Blu-ray Will Be Dead in Five Years [Blu-Ray]
Gizmodo —
We've finally gotten to the good shit in Blu-ray: BD-Live 2.0 players all over the place, Transformers, Firefly, cheaper prices, almost everything we wanted. That's too bad, because Samsung says this party will be over in just five years. Andy Griffiths, Samsung UK's director of consumer electronics, says that "I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn't give it 10." Sad, really, since he believes 2008 is finally Blu-ray's year (we agree, by year's end, it'll have finally found its stride). He doesn't elaborate on ...
Samsung exec says Blu-ray likely won’t last more than five years
CrunchGear —
... Samsung’s Director of CE in the UK Andy Griffiths doesn’t see a long-term future for Blu-ray and told Pocket Lint in an interview that this is the year for the format to finally work out all the kinks, which it essentially has. ...
Samsung UK exec says Blu-ray "has five years left"
Engadget —
... While we can't say if it represents a general sentiment at Samsung or not, the company's UK director of consumer electronics, Andy Griffiths, sure went out on a bit of a limb in a recent interview with Pocket-lint, with him saying that Blu-ray has, to paraphrase David ...
Blu-ray Wednesday: The Japan edition
Crave: The gadget blog —
... Given all the Blu-ray players announced this week, it's clear not everyone got the memo with Samsung's prediction that it'll be just five years before the next-gen format gets bumped by another ... ...
Blu-ray has a shelf life of 5 years says Samsung
PR News: —
... sites like LoveFilms, plus you can now buy Blu-ray players much cheaper than before due to the head to head fight with HD DVD players.
Although, there seems to be a new technology that Samsung are getting excited about and that is OLED, The new technology which is ready to rock is on a back burner due to high manufacturing costs. It’s said that once the OLED is at an appealing price for the consumer it will be launched, but they don’t expect this for some time.
Source: pocket-lint
Samsung: Al formato Blu-ray le quedan 5 años de vida
Gizmología —
... mucho, alrededor de los 400 euros, un dinero que se puede invertir en algo mejor, algo como un PC que haga de centro multimedia con el que te puedes descargar películas en alta definición a falta de un empuje de las distribuidoras por permitir la compra de vídeo en alta definición online.
¡Pero que el consumo no decaiga! Que si los fabricantes y distribuidores se quejan de que las malas ventas son culpa nuestra, culpa de “los piratas”.
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Samsung Adds Final Nail to Blu-ray’s Coffin
LIVEdigitally —
... I was, therefore, quite surprised to read an interview with a Samsung exec predicting the demise of the Blu-ray format within the next 5 years. I can’t see any possibly upside to this statement for Samsung, content makers, other device manufacturers, etc. ...
Samsung Forecasts the Demise of Blue-ray
Gear Live —
... that’s not yet.”
Oddly enough, he may be right. We found out recently that Sony is rumored to be lowering the price of its BDP-S350 this month to make it a $300.00 purchase.
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