DVD to be obsolete soon

[Vile]

Schultz hit this one right on the head. industries can't force consumers to switch without killing themselves in lost sales while/if people upgrade to the new equipment. this will also spawn more pirate companies that will take blu-ray content and put it on dvd at standard quality. so no, dvds will not be obsolete in a year, it will be quite some time before the market is ready to take on a new format.

besides, blu-ray will probably go the way of the laserdisc if they try to introduce it before the market is ready, because it wont be successful, and when the market is ready, newer, better technology will be there instead.

the only conceivable way they will be able to introduce this format in a year would be if the media is all HDTV and the equipment is backwards compatible with dvds.

-Vile