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Samsung loves Blu-ray today but says only “5 years” left

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Griffiths told Pocket-link that: “We will launch the OLED technology when it's at a price that will be appealing to the consumer, unfortunately that's not yet. It's gonna be big, but at the moment it's a great story, not commercial, product."

He also believes that by 2012, we’ll all be living in an HD world, with everything displaying and recording in HD.

You’d think that would be perfect for Blu-ray, but if super high-speed bandwidth, massive cloud storage and hundreds of terabyte hard drives are the norm, why will anyone need a 12cm plastic breakable disc again?

Griffiths didn’t say those words, but he’s clearly intimating them.

Samsung is of course right, as downloads and downloading have long been heralded as the true solution, but for most people, 50GB downloads simply aren’t feasible or time efficient.

Until then, you have at least 5 years to buy all those Blu-ray titles of favourite DVD movies, some of which you may have had on Laserdisc or VHS, which you can have the pocketbook pleasure of buying again via a legal download HD format in just a few years time.

Hey, that’s show business!

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