Flash memory is already beginning to replace CD's, and DVD's will
follow. No computer technology is forever. Some of it isn't even good
for 5 years.
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Rob Studdert wrote:
On 27 Apr 2006 at 22:59, Leon Altoff wrote:
Computers have become so tied up with the whole multi-media thing that
they NEED to maintain compatibility with people's CD and DVD
collections. My DVD collection is only about 100 or so, but I know
people with over 500 DVD's and countless CDs. The cost of conversion is
prohibitive and unless compatibility is maintained then take up of any
new technology will be slow. Manufacturers don't want this so for a
minor increase in cost they will build in the compatibility - until the
content suppliers come up with a new way of licensing the content (and
that is happening as we speak too).
I too think that CD and at the least DVD media will remain readily readable for
some time, I guess at least 25 years and they will be commonplace in computers
for the next 10-15 years even if just as a legacy media function of a new multi-
disc drive.
Rob Studdert
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