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- trafficlight, on 04/27/2009, -2/+408100 DVDs on a disk? How many Libraries of Congress is that? Volkswagens Beetles?
Why not just say 500GB. I know how much that is. - mattluiz, on 08/28/2009, -6/+331Label this under '***** we won't get for at least 15 years'.
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -12/+283I shall fill them with pron.
- topcat5, on 04/27/2009, -1/+246By the time they finish with the DRM for it, there will be room for just one movie.
- frontaxle, on 04/27/2009, -4/+178Yeah. But it's 3.5 feet thick.
- digrboi, on 04/27/2009, -1/+157imagine a scratch on that!!!
- outoforder, on 04/27/2009, -2/+131A disc? I thought the future was flash drives.
- pissshivers, on 04/27/2009, -4/+107Meh.. Optical storage is getting boring, and that sucker will take forever to burn.
Wake me up when we have affordable 500GB SSDs. - gizmo12688, on 04/27/2009, -8/+97I already do. It's called a laptop.
- Sirocco, on 04/27/2009, -2/+89Yep. You get married, get a job, and before you know it you're over thirty and no one is trusting you.
- nextekcarl, on 04/27/2009, -1/+86That used to bother me. But as I get older, years seem to pass as fast as summers used to for me. Has anyone else noticed this?
- davidjunit, on 04/27/2009, -12/+80But are we talking about DVD5 or DVD9? I may never know... because I have to register to see the article.
- tidu, on 04/27/2009, -3/+69Every internet?
- MachtSpass, on 04/27/2009, -4/+64Yes. All of them.
- amishjim, on 04/27/2009, -1/+48Thats what she said.. o wait . . ..
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -2/+48Backing up everything and flooding the bathroom... my kind of tacos.
- ilikeeggs8877, on 04/27/2009, -2/+45Ramen brother. Ramen.
- psixaos, on 04/27/2009, -0/+43It is interesting that this uses an 'inexpensive' holographic technology at its base and the technology can also read DVD/BluRay. I didn't know there are already [expensive] holographic discs and writers in use by the video production and medical companies.
- recruz, on 04/27/2009, -1/+40only 440 GB dood, not 4400
- cawpin, on 04/27/2009, -3/+40No you don't. I didn't.
- cerejota, on 04/27/2009, -4/+40This will bring Moore's law to disc storage. Soon, densities will be such that one could carry the internets in a backpack.
- kingmanic, on 04/27/2009, -1/+36the coating on Blu-rays is really scratch resistant. buy a crappy movie or a PS3 demo and try to scratch it. I imagine this will have a similar coating.
- Majupra, on 04/27/2009, -1/+35I can't be the only one who's immediate reaction was "This is going to make the postal service the most efficient file transfer service again."
- bubbadigg, on 04/27/2009, -0/+28must be a metric gigabyte.
- SecretCow, on 04/27/2009, -0/+28What an amazingly vague article...
- sLydE, on 04/27/2009, -0/+28@bubbadigg
If that's the way your marriage is, then your doing it wrong. - tidu, on 04/27/2009, -1/+28This department is leaving the Microwave Oven Programming division in the dust!
- tunafizzle, on 04/27/2009, -0/+27I thought the future was robot prostitutes.
- Defiant001, on 04/27/2009, -3/+29For those wondering...
dvd5 = single layer (4.7 gb)
dvd9 = dual layer (8.5 gb) - sewerraccoon, on 04/27/2009, -0/+25Amazing bandwidth, horendous latency
- Defiant001, on 04/27/2009, -1/+25How many "movies" or "games" or "books" is that? I believe this type of analogy is referred to as stupid units?
- enozten, on 04/27/2009, -2/+26are you an idiot?? do you know how many tubes that would be?
- Bloodwine, on 04/27/2009, -1/+24should be an interesting experiment. give a Blu-ray disk to a kid for a day and see what it looks like at the end of the day.
- gozasc, on 04/27/2009, -4/+27I don't see why we need it... we'll never need more than 640k
- bubbadigg, on 04/27/2009, -0/+23how many 5 1/4" floppys is that ?
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -2/+24I see we have some catastrophic hard drive failure virgins.
- Hollowpoint, on 04/27/2009, -1/+22A whole series no doubt.
- CylonsOfTheLamb, on 04/27/2009, -0/+21with the right amount of lighter fluid, probably less than a minute.
- anteyekon4myst, on 04/27/2009, -0/+21Hey man, it could be worse. This old guy at work told me they use to measure countries with "Texas" as a unit of measure.
- austroLogi, on 04/27/2009, -1/+22all my storage combined isn't enough to fill one of those things
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/27/2009, -7/+27They should be putting that R&D money into ultra-high-capacity, ultra-high-speed flash memory. It's time for spinning media to go away.
- Volath, on 04/27/2009, -0/+19It would be 440gb.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 04/27/2009, -1/+20Never he.
- CylonsOfTheLamb, on 04/27/2009, -1/+20let me count 'em up real quick....
one, two, three...........ok, I came up with 42. Anyone else get a different number? - Volath, on 04/27/2009, -0/+18Yeah, what Defiant001 said. I hate it when I get asked "how many songs can your music player hold?" and I reply "Uhhh....however many songs and videos it will take me to fill up 60 gigs." and then I get the blank stare.
- phoggey, on 04/27/2009, -0/+18That's what bill gates said about 640k. Can't wait to see how wrong you are.
- JM0ney, on 04/27/2009, -2/+19One disk still probably couldn't hold all of the porn the average digger has accumulated.
- baiwushi, on 04/27/2009, -2/+19I wonder how long it would take to burn a disc..
- Jonslilbro, on 04/27/2009, -2/+19Also the fact that a standard dvd holds 4.7 GB of data, and since a terabyte is 1000 GB, 4.7*100=470 GB... not even half of a terabyte, so you saying "nearly a terabyte" is actually not even half of a terabyte....
- TheUngod, on 04/27/2009, -0/+17And downloading it will take 2 straight weeks. And sadly, most of us will still do it.
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