TDK now shipping 25 GB blu-ray disks

[Hazar]

Garden City (NY) - Whether TDK is actually the first out of the gate with Blu-ray recordable discs available to the public, may be a matter of some debate - Sony is also claiming that honor - but today, TDK announced it's ready to ship to US retailers what it's describing as the first publicly available single-layer Blu-ray recordable discs. The news means that retailers are likely to be able to sell 25 GB recording media to consumers when the first components hit the shelves, perhaps in late May, most likely in June. However, the question of 50 GB dual-layer availability is a little less clear.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/10/tdk_shipping_25gb_blu-ray_media/

 

[Parrot of doom]

Do a Google search on 'Sony XDCAM' you'll see that discs like this have been available for yonks

 

[Qonfused]

This is cool but I can't help but think for uses for such a big data space. 25GB? What could normal consumers possibly use these for?

 

[Danimal]

That's a whole lotta' Shens.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Been waiting sometime for these but what do kind of drive will we need to burn BR's? I'm assuming there will be BR-RW drives or something.

 

[DeusExMachina]

This is cool but I can't help but think for uses for such a big data space. 25GB? What could normal consumers possibly use these for?

I think the question is....who the hell needs 25 GBs of space and would ever exceed beyond...even 5? Then again, I could put all my music on one of these...

 

[bryanf445]

25 bucks thats pretty cheap, damn

 

[VirusType2]

I think it's kind of impractical to have the discs so large. With my year old DVD-R (unknown speed) I put the disc in and the thumbnails alone take forever to load. It takes like 15 minutes to load all the images after putting a disc in the player. Ya know, like 800 JPEG images? I can't imagine how long it would take with a x1 speed Blu Ray disc, and at 2x speed the 25 GB Blu ray discs take 30 minutes to burn. Then, imagine trying to find a particular file on one of these discs. I give up looking for particular images or files on my CD ROMS.

I guess its best used for console games and playing movies. With its built in copy protection, I don't see the HD or Blu ray recorders useful for burning movies either.

The HD-DVD seems more realistically sized and seems like it will be up to 50% less expensive for discs, players, software.

I said it before, if I buy an HD disc player it will be a dual layer HD-DVD, which is 30GB, yea after they are cheap, and after it is like x52 speed... this x1 and x2 stuff sucks the balls.

HD-DVD has a single layer capacity of 15 GB and a dual-layer capacity of 30 GB..

Won't 1x or 2x Blu Ray and HD-DVD be much slower data transfer than the currently available x52 speed CD ROMS even? I'll have to check this out later

 

[Adabiviak]

I imagine these'll be particularly useful for data backup? Current DVD technology appears to have plenty of space for movies/extras. The need will come, it just seems like a lot now. I've got an old advertisement for a 15 megabyte hard drive from Radio Shack for most of $3000.

 

[Hazar]

yeah, the only practical use right now for them is large backups as far as I can tell

however, as with all new storage technology it will be improved and become mainstream. Just look at what happened with the cd, people though 700 mb was a rediculous amount of space, now games are coming out on like 6-7 cd's.

 

[NotATool]

This is cool but I can't help but think for uses for such a big data space. 25GB? What could normal consumers possibly use these for?

Isn't that what they were saying about DVDs several years back?

We came from 1 mb hardrives to 200gb harddrives, surely this trend hasn't reached an end.

Games are getting bigger and bigger.