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Posted by whiskers on Feb-27-2004 16:25:

23gb / disc

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The approved/not approved spec. details a standard-sized, single-sided disc that can hold up to 20GB of data. Today's DVDs, by contrast, hold up to 4.7GB per side.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/35889.html

Posted by Moongoose on Feb-27-2004 16:51:

This one sounds even better ---> http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

Imagine how much porn and cartoons you can put on one of these...

Posted by whiskers on Feb-27-2004 17:04:

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Originally posted by Moongoose
This one sounds even better ---> http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

Imagine how much porn and cartoons you can put on one of these...

heh, 27Gb and 54Gb... where's my 2 pentabyte harddrive?

Posted by SuperFarStucker on Feb-27-2004 18:21:

The media is too expensive as is the drives that read it and to be honest there is no practical reason to use it (*maybe* for backups).

Posted by SuperFarStucker on Feb-27-2004 18:28:

btw that article is talking about the specification which blu-ray will fall under. *edit* my bad apparently they both use the same technology but HD is blu-ray's competitor. Expect upwards of 10 USD per disc and initially *very* expensive writers 1000 USD +. How many people actually own a HDTV? I'll gather few, and that's what the spec is aimed at. Given the tvs are expensive as hell, teh media is sure to be as well.

Also, the media sports a .1mm protective coating which is pretty weak compared to the .6mm dvds have. Keep in mind that the denser the data is packed the more each scratch destroys. Which is why they are probably going to caddy them (put in a cartridge); increasing the cost even further.

Posted by jinxed84 on Feb-27-2004 22:35:

i saw some report on the news the other day they there will be a 200gb optical disk comming out within 2 years i think, although it may have been a sooner timetable. the drives are expected to be like 3-5k

Posted by Moongoose on Feb-28-2004 04:34:

Well every new thing is expensive...i remember that first 1x speed cd rom i got...man i payed some heavy money for that thing...now they almost give them away with empty cds

Posted by MrSquirrel on Feb-28-2004 04:52:

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Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
btw that article is talking about the specification which blu-ray will fall under. *edit* my bad apparently they both use the same technology but HD is blu-ray's competitor. Expect upwards of 10 USD per disc and initially *very* expensive writers 1000 USD +. How many people actually own a HDTV? I'll gather few, and that's what the spec is aimed at. Given the tvs are expensive as hell, teh media is sure to be as well.

Also, the media sports a .1mm protective coating which is pretty weak compared to the .6mm dvds have. Keep in mind that the denser the data is packed the more each scratch destroys. Which is why they are probably going to caddy them (put in a cartridge); increasing the cost even further.

Not that long ago DVD-R drives were in excess of 900 dollars for a bare drive and the discs were at their cheapest $10 a disc for a blank. Everything gets cheaper as it becomes more prevalent.

Hell when my mom bought her CD player it was the most expensive part of her stereo system at like 600 bucks.

MrS

Posted by -=M=- on Feb-28-2004 04:52:

either way

i need a new hdd too...