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Related: A few years later, Bill Gates would make the rather absurd prediction that there would be no successor to the DVD, because in the future, people would simply stream their movies over the Internet!


I hadn't heard that, but looking it up this is what I see from cnbc:

' “Oh, they’ll [vcr's] be replaced by a disc player within four or five years,” Gates says. “I’m talking about access to media across the network.”

In other words, Gates is describing our ability to watch movies, TV shows and other streaming videos online. '

I'm not entirely sure he means the Internet by "the network"? In the same interview he refers to the Internet as "the Net".


What I meant was an interview from 2004 referenced here (couldn't find the original source online): https://www.nmz.de/politik-betrieb/kulturpolitik/bill-gates-...

He said DVDs would be replaced within 10 years by VOD TV. He also claimed that phones and Pocket PCs would have a big future.




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