Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Five > years out CD's will be very hard to find and new computers will not read > them. I suspect that this is not true. It is so easy to build a DVD drive that can also read CDs that I'm sure all of them will be able to do so for a long long time. For some reason I didn't see Dennis' original question: > Brian, Will the new "blue ray DVD's make the DVD's used today obsolete > in the near future? but it is the nature of that industry to make drives that are backwards compatible, because it will help them build market share. That means that it is certain that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD readers will be able to read regular DVDs and also CDs. Note that there are at least 3 kinds of "regular DVDs", namely DVD, DVD-R, and DVD+R, never mind the rewritable ones.