Richard Doherty, from the infamous Doherty family and Microsoft’s program manager for Media Entertainment Convergence, slung some proverbial poo at both the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray loving manufacturers and studios. With one quick exhale of his M$ paid voice, he claimed that both formats, as well as any other optical format that is out or may come out in the future will become obsolete in five years.

I showed up just in time to scream “No Shit!” and then ran away into my troll house to wait for the next obvious statement to be spewed from someone’s mouth. Dick went on to say that at Microsoft, they would rather HD content was not on a disc at all, and also added that for the time being they are supporting HD-DVD because it has better interactive content (and Toshiba makes their XBOX 360 hardware, there is an HD-DVD add-on for the 360, the PS3 has a Blu-Ray drive, and Microsoft hates Sony- but they didn’t mention these parts).

Now that the future of disc formats is settled, and before I go back to my trollhouse for some trollhouse cookies and such, I will make another outlandish claim about the future of tech: In five years, today’s processors will be considered ancient and slow when compared to current micro computer processors.

Let’s see how that one turns out.

[Via about-electronics]

1. CB17 says:
   June 14th, 2007 at 3:09 pm

   I agree, but I also think that for this to really work we shouldn’t be discussing home bandwidth in the kbps…more like up and down should be in the teens (mbps) at the minimum as a STANDARD

2. killjoy says:
   June 18th, 2007 at 9:12 am

   troll attack: no shit!

   rationality: no shit!

   end thought? no shit!

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   September 6th, 2007 at 2:35 am

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