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


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

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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?

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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).

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

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.

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

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

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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

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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

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either way

i need a new hdd too...