Comments on: Disc Tech Advance May Obsolete Blu-Ray & HD-DVD

By: Revenant

Revenant — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:06:32 +0000

#4 and #5 – Redundent backup of all that data to two disks and keep one as a local archive and one as off-site backup! Depending on the cost of the media there’s no reason why you couldn’t make 3, 4 or 5 copies and have cheap redunent redundent redundent redudundent redundent backup data.

I’m just wondering why the push for “disk” type technology at all. Haven’t we gotten to the point where solid state should start making a comeback again? I’d rather have a 1 TB SNES cartridge that requires no moving parts to access the data than 1 TB *VD…

By: Lauren the Ghoti

Lauren the Ghoti — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:52:05 +0000

I predict! A many-layered card – holographic – read by a electonically-steered (i.e. nonmechanical) laser or laser array… No moving parts, total silence, ultimate reliability, scalability and compatibility with future improvements trivial…

I’m thinking maybe 2 years before someone (IBM? Hitachi? TI?) pops out with something of the sort.

By: M.

M. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:12:23 +0000

the next real big breakthrough will be the holographic write and read
disc that will hold terabytes of data. no need to reduce any information.
plus it will store 3 dimension info to be viewed without special glasses. glass cable will stream down HQ/HD on demand programs. maybe discs will not be needed at all!

By: KVolk

KVolk — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:53:52 +0000

#14

Google Freud

By: Lauren the Ghoti

Lauren the Ghoti — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:52:08 +0000

Hahaha. Yang-keez. Suck-erz.

By the time 1Tb optical is ready for the consumer market, spinning disks, optical or otherwise, will be legacy tech.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:29:00 +0000

Fifty year lifespan?
For a new technology that’s still in development?
I remember when they told us CDs would last “forever”… Oooops! Data drops after only four or five years. We bad…

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:20:21 +0000

>>The picture and sound would be as good as it was laid down
>>by the video editors during post-production.

Yeah, and the content would be the same steaming pile of horse dung that it is on regular old DVD.

If Hollywood could take its thumb out of its ass long enought to make a few more decent movies, they’d generate more interest in people being able to fit 1060 movies on a disk. Granted, people like Mr. Ray will be able to store their observatory data, but how many people need to do that?

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:29:57 +0000

How long before some other company creates a competing format. It will be blu ray/hd dvd all over again.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:34:35 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised at all that this good idea will die thanks to obscenely high royalty fees.

Anyone else remember a 10mb floppy disc in the 80s?

By: RSweeney

RSweeney — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:08:00 +0000

Wow, over 200 movies on one disc.

hmmm… at $10/movie, that’s over two grand for a single disc loaded with content.

Somehow I don’t think this will be a distribution medium for movies. But maybe for TV series in HD.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:08:06 +0000

DVD format has lasted HOW long?
And remember it was out there BEFORE it was in the stores.
I think they started about 93-95′

So, 10 years later, we get HD/BR formats…

I would think in about 5-10 years we MAY see this format…

By: Cinaedh

Cinaedh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:39:35 +0000

#11 – iGlobalWarmer (YOY)

“Waddya mean? Bare boobies and/or lots of explosions…”

I think I’ve figured out the North American male’s obsession with large udders (apparently they were NOT breast fed as babies -> or were breast fed too long) but I still can’t figure out the obsession with blowing things up.

Anyone care to help me out here?

By: Lowfreq

Lowfreq — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:53:09 +0000

Yet more vaporware? Even if it does come out…so what? Solid state hard drives still offer better bang for the buck for mass data storage. Besides, just how pissed off will you be when your 3 year old scratches your 5TB disk of porn?

By: Interwebitubelink Surfer

Interwebitubelink Surfer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:38:29 +0000

Yeah, but then what about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? Are you saying early adopters are going to get screwed, again?!!?! No way, never happens…

If they stream fast enough, the data could be either compressed, or entirely uncompressed (no artifacts!). The picture and sound would be as good as it was laid down by the video editors during post-production.

Can you say, “Perfect Video and Sound” ??

By: iGlobalWarmer (YOY)

iGlobalWarmer (YOY) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:28:09 +0000

#2 – Waddya mean? Bare boobies and/or lots of explosions and you’ve got a good movie.