Samsung exec says Blu-ray likely won't last more than five years
“I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn’t give it 10.”
Rather than bank on Blu-ray, Samsung is backing the OLED technology they’ve been working on, but it won’t be ready for the masses until manufacturing costs drop.
“We will launch the OLED technology when it’s at a price that will be appealing to the consumer, unfortunately that’s not yet.”
Griffiths says we won’t reach that point until about 2010. Samsung has been pushing their Internet friendly TVs this year and it’s likely the direction they will continue to go for some time. What was that about downloadable content taking over optical disc media?