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- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ha!
Just what we need. So.. When can I stop building my HD-DVD collection and buy Hyper-Excellent-HD-High-Capacity DVD's?
Jimzip :D - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm still waiting for XrayDVD.
- TogTogTogTog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2HA!
Man thats really sticking it to HD and BlueRay.
GO TINY LASERS! - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No! No more!
- UnknownCzar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really do agree.
The difference in storage between VHS and DVD was huge, and not only that but it was aesthetically different and easier to carry around. And it was cheaper to make.
Now lets look at DVD and hd-dvd/blu-ray:
They look the same, same size, cost more to make... The only difference is that they hold more data.
This really is like the zip100 & etc. all over again. Those things cost allot, looked near exactly like floppies, and their zip-drives cost allot too. In the end nobody used them and now thumb drives are whats used to replace the floppy.
I will wait for the next thing, not for something only a few people will buy and then nobody will end up using. - modernpixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holographic Discs still remain at the top of my "Cool as *****" list.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All of this was rendered obsolete years ago by holographic storage.
But it doesn't matter; we'll still be stuck with compressed-into-excrement video at pathetic data rates, hobbled by DRM and continually changing interconnect standards, while Popular Science and Digg festoon their pages with stories like this.
Physical carriers will be obsolete once people start accepting the sub-VHS-quality downloads that are looming, and then you can write high quality off forever. - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1These would totally rock for my army of tetras
- SpeaktoMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Think of what this means for the Sony PS3. It was a wise decision on the part of Microsoft not to include HD-DVD capability internally for their Xbox360 but rather as an optional add-on
- Wawert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It just seems to me, that this is the floppy disc all over again. Shaping laser beams and all.
from 3MB original to 7MB compressed to 100 MB super floppy.
Look what VHS did to up storage. I think its due time for another upgrade. - wildthing202200, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This means nothing to the PS3, this technology won't be available to the public for 5 years at the earliest.
- ianenos03, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wish I had any amount of confidence in either HD-DVD or Blu-ray as a movie distribution format. But news like this makes it hard to be a believer. In the end, these hard formats will likely be replaced by a download/streaming distribution model. However, this is a fantastic breakthrough in data storage. If they can go multi-layer with these discs (I don't know if anyone remembers the old rumors of a quad-layer Blu-ray disc, which is interesting since dual layer Blu-ray seems to be quite the trick) we could be talking about a terabyte in your jewel case. That's a lot of Diggnation (unless they finally make the switch to UHDV).
- toby34a, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is the standard progression of technology. When DVD was reaching commercial stability, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were already in the wings (Blu-Ray more, because of the advantages of the higher-wavelegnth blue laser). Red lasers are limited in their wavelegnth and legnth (optical parameters). This is just the next step- the further steps will probably include UV light with these- as we step out of the visible spectrum, we'll get better lasing capability and higher storage standards.
- BioHMMWV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I love this. Just as Sony and Toshiba attempt start a standard war at the cost to the American consumer, there is a new technology that blows their paltry storage capacities out of the water. Now, this is a real leap in technology.
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