You may 
be aware that this weekend it’s The Ultimate Console Bash, but I won’t rehash what happened or predict which console is going to win mass adoption and that. It’s not interesting either: there are plenty of experts and analysts around who will tell you why the Xbox 360, PS 3 or Wii will make you sing like Pavarotti in 256 million-gazilion colours using “3 seperate processor cores and a microphone”.
However, this article (‘Death of the Disc’) reminded me of a question posed this weekend which DVD platform would make it: HD-DVD or BlueRay. Neither, I said. The article above literally seems to be a copy of what I said with a couple of exception: I don’t see a future in CDs because it’s old technology. Secondly, back in the days the reason for having floppy disks was to move data from one to another location. That became pretty much obnoxious when operating systems like Windows 3.11 were released on 3.5 inch (floppy) disks. Currently, the maximum that fits on a BlueRay disks is in or around 200 GB (triple layer). By the time these BlueRay drives have become affordable, 2.5 TB harddrives are probably just as common as apples. And, did I mention about the speed difference between harddrives and optical drives?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Seagate (picture of PS3 HD) would be bought up by Sony (or maybe I should say ‘merge’), in say 2 or 3 years. And even Toshiba would make a great buy for companies like Apple and Microsoft.