All that talk about discs becoming obsolete is a bit of a crock. Or so say a bunch of guys whose financial livelihood depends on the disc.
"I'm fond of recalling the old visions of the past that the paperless office would completely obliterate the need for paper. It seemed like a very reasonable, logical prediction decades ago that turned out to be completely wrong," said Andy
Parsons, an SVP at Pioneer Electronics and chair of a Blu-ray Disc Association promotion committee. [Parsons was speaking at an expo in Denver, according to a Home Media Magazine report.]
Parsons isn't alone in his view. Also on the Blu-ray cheerleading squad are David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, who argued that digital media can coexist with discs; Steve Feldstein, a 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment exec who thinks that the fourth quarter could be great for Blu-ray; and Chris Fawcett, VP of home video at Sony Electronics, who says that "movie fans won" when the industry "unified behind Blu-ray."
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