According to Bill Gates it will be.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years at the latest, Microsoft boss and founder Bill Gates (news - web sites) predicted.

Asked what home entertainment would like in the future, Gates said that DVD technology would be "obsolete in 10 years at the latest. If you consider that nowadays we have to carry around film and music on little silver discs and stick them in the computer, it's ridiculous," Gates said in comments reproduced in German in the mass-circulation daily Bild.

"These things can scratch or simply get lost."


Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that will simply show what we want to see, when we want to see it. When we get home, the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face. It will know what we want to watch, our favourite programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to see."




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That technology has truly horrific implications, if you think about it.

I know it's coming, I just don't like it.

That technology has truly horrific implications, if you think about it.

I know it's coming, I just don't like it.
I don't even like tv. Seems we are raising generation after generations of lazy kids. My daughter can't go anywhere without her game boy. I try to take it from her but she just goes to her friends house to play games there. When I was a kid my dad pulled the plug on the TV and told me to go out and play ball. The other kids were out playing and there was always something to do outside. Seems that kids today are all recluses.

We were supposed to have flying cars and cold fusion by now, too- remember all the old Popular Science artwork and everything? I think Bill Gates and Microsoft are setting their sights a little high here.

That technology has truly horrific implications, if you think about it.

I know it's coming, I just don't like it.
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I don't think so. Look at how advanced CD's and these new flash usb devices are coming. Gates has made predictions before and been very close to what our technology is up to. I just don't know if everyone will be up that speed due to cost, unless he wants flip the bill...which is fine with me.