Mark,
You must be a squirrel.
<<With video, you'll have many events that you'll want to keep for later viewing, >>
If you assume some advance in available bandwidth, why would you store a video presentation locally when you can access it at will on someone else's storage?
<<much like you keep old e-mails to recall useful conversations>>
You get better e-mails than I.
<<So, perhaps next year, many annual meetings will be delivered by video. New product announcements may come via video. Even quarterly conference calls could involve video. How many of these can you imagine storing and playing back later.>>
None. Give me the hard copy now and the SEC filing (without the spin) later.
<<Also, if you find streaming quality is lacking, think of how perfect it would be to store it and play it directly from your disk drive. >>
Why the disk drive? If you must have a copy available, put it on a zip drive or an orb drive, or a 120 drive, etc, etc.
<<Only last year I read 75 million IBM 3270 terminals were still in use. >>
You see potential upgrades. I wonder if technology capability has passed functional necessity.
And finally-- <<If you have tons of disk space, you'll use it.>>
Only if it is cheap space. If disk space is dear to you, you find many things you don't really need or use.
Frankly, I believe we are going to see smaller but faster disk drives and larger removable, portable storage devices at the desktop level.
But then, I'm a nut,
Yogi
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