[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]CD has been virtually dead for a long time. DVDs won't go anywhere anytime soon or at least until he new consoles (PS4 and XBOX INFINITY) arrive. I'm sure they'll still be, for whatever reason, selling hard copies of games in 2014. Hopefully, games will be so robust that blu-ray discs will be required. Whenever Japan finally moves to the cloud, the US will probably be 10 years behind, thus not requiring hard copies. Unfortunately, the average internet speed here in the US is too slow for that to sell. Look what has happened to OnLive?[/citation]
you could have a dedicated fiber line from your pc to the onlive servers and back, but it would still introduce to much lag for some games to be playable multiplayer, much less competitively.
to even get a decent play ability, you need to live within 50 miles of an onlive serverfarm.
than to top that off, you had to play games through onlive, when a 100$ (5770) can give you better visuals, better frame rate, and not require an internet connection with nothing going on in the background.
thats what killed onlive, they couldnt sell it as a service (if i remember right) so you buy games to play on it, but people didnt buy games on it often enough to pay for the service, and with contracts and agrements they couldn't suddenly charge people to play the games.
the only way the cloud for gaming could ever take off is if every where in america had a pure fiber line, with that 10-100mb up and down speed. there were render farms in every major city and even the rural areas got a farm. until than hardware is required, and i dont think we will ever get to the not owing personal hardware in my lifetime.
[citation][nom]shin0bi272[/nom]How many of the commentators here have a bluray drive in their PC? I'll bet there arent too many. Ive got 4 pc's and NONE of them have bluray drives (not even my file server)... Enterprise storage media long ago moved away from the CD jukebox and started using hard drives. For home users that trend is just beginning and the movie industry isnt concerned with HOW you buy their movie just that you DO buy it. Hell the movie industry should be all over the idea of digital downloads for movies on things like Netflix because it costs them damned near NOTHING to produce the copy or distribute it and they get that much more profit. Hell my best friend has an entire WALL of dvds in his house... hes given me several of them so that he could have the excuse to go buy the bluray or the one with 5.1 surround sound or the collectors edition one. I cant say Ive even watched them once. But I digress... The concept of spinning disk storage even for home use is getting to the point where it doesnt make sense anymore. A 2tb hard drive is under 100 bucks. A bluray burner is about 60 bucks for the cheapest one on newegg with the 25gb disks costing somewhere around a buck each. That means you need ~80 to give the space of a 2tb hard drive and youre already well over 100 bucks and you have to keep track of 80 disks (40 if they are dual layer)! So lets face it the optical drive is a waste of money and time at this point. I cant even remember the last time I bought a game in a store to be honest... Steam makes things so much easier.[/citation]
ok, you have a point, if i could rely on hdds or flash storage for long term storage...
i have yet to have a dvd fail to work, so long as it burnt successfully.
i have had 3 flash drives in the last year fail for no reason, one failing the second use.
i have had 6 harddrives fail in the last 2 years.
but not a single dvd has ever failed me
and bluray... they are getting cheaper, at some point will be in the 20-30 cents a disc range.
only reason i dont have one now is because i have a ps3, so i have a player, and i dont have a burner because i still have 400 blank dvds, at some point that will run out, and thats when a blu ray burner will be an option.
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