By 2020, the sets should be more affordable. Video on demand is inevitable, Thompson said. That's where you can order and watch a movie through your cable, without having to make that trip down to Blockbuster. That could even extend to new movies. Columbia TriStar Home Video President Ben Feingold told Video Week magazine recently he expects that within 12 years new releases will be available in the home, so you don't have to make that trip down to the theater.
Videotapes are in trouble.
Recordable DVDs will arrive in the next year, Joseph said. Others expect we'll be recording shows straight onto a hard drive soon. People already have their home theaters set up with lots of channels and lots of speakers. Music will start coming that way, too. But Joseph is pretty sure it will work better and last longer than the ill-fated quadraphonic experiment in the 1970s.