400GB Blu-Ray Disc

[Blackthorn]

Pretty damn impressive. I hope Sony uses this to make games bigger than life itself. Or simply sticking entire collections of shows on would be amazing.

 

[unozero]

too bad bd only has like 5 more years to go before it gets replaced by quad-hd

 

[Hells Angel]

Very interesting mate - nice post

 

[kazsymonds]

The next format will be holographic disks wont it? 5tb on one disk i heard...

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Sony wants it. You can put over 50 games in there.

 

[The Monkey]

That girl looks looks a robot.

 

[Asus]

The amazing thing is that this isn't a completely new format that needs updated hardware. It plays in current blu-ray players...
It's just an advancement in layers rather than a change in format specs.

The install base is already in place and growing so their earning potential is there. They just need to cut the cost of making the disk.

 

[kacation_man]

streaming media and downloadable content will end up completely wiping out the need for disks..

look at steam..a prime example. sure you can still get the disk.. but i havent gotten a disk game for steam since Half life 2: ep1. ( actually my cpu came with a copy of lost planet steam copy.. but i didnt pay or choose to get that )

 

[Iced_Eagle]

The next format will be holographic disks wont it? 5tb on one disk i heard...

Eventually, yes. However it's just a matter of how long it will take for the format to mature and if people will want to move to it.

Disc's are still going to be around for a while. Broadband isn't at the speeds (at least in the US) where you can go to full digital distribution.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Or in estonia, where city people have 1-3 megabyte and country folk have 200 kilobyte speed.

 

[Druckles]

The next format will be holographic disks wont it? 5tb on one disk i heard...

Been like that for years. Space Odyssey 2001 had references to holographic memory. Won't happen for a while, yet. I think autostereoscopic displays will be well in by then.

However, I'm not at the forefront of holographic data storage, so I wouldn't know.

 

[The Monkey]

The next format will be holographic disks wont it? 5tb on one disk i heard...

Actually it's 3.9 TB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

Think about. That disc can fit about 900 000 songs on it. That's more than six years worth of music. On one disc. :O

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Actually it's 3.9 TB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

Think about. That disc can fit about 900 000 songs on it. That's more than six years worth of music. On one disc. :O

That's fairly cool, but what I would much rather have is like an entire season of a show, in HD on one disc.

Or imagine, later on, you can get The Hobbit parts 1/2, and the three LOTR movies, all extended editions, all in HD, and with all of the special features on one disc. That would be jizz-worthy.

 

[Druckles]

But fewer boxes

 

[PvtRyan]

I hate optical discs with their redonkulous seek times.