400gb Blu-ray discs incoming

[Tikker]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080708/tc_nf/60673

that's kind of a large jump, 50gb to 400gb

maybe the right format won out afterall

[Kramer]

not the format thread again.....


but that is sweet man... 400g's

[ClakarEQ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080708/tc_nf/60673

that's kind of a large jump, 50gb to 400gb

maybe the right format won out afterall

Depending on the write speed I could see this becoming the new "tape". Optical backups are nothing new but 400GB per disc, that sure is!

[Tikker]

I don't want to get into the politics behind backing the formats, or how craptastic of a job Sony has done in rolling out the format

but strictly in terms of raw format, I think this is an indication of the right choice being made

[Tossica]

By the time this actually hit market if it ever does, noone will give a shit.

[Tikker]

bitter much?

[brinstar]

will the new discs be readable by the old players?

or will you have to buy "bluray 2.0" to read the big discs?

[Tossica]

I'm just saying, this is a couple years away, will be even more expensive than the current technology and most likely will not work with current BR players. They still have a hard time with yields on dual layer disks. Good luck on getting those 16 layer disc prices down.

[Tikker]

will the new discs be readable by the old players?

or will you have to buy "bluray 2.0" to read the big discs?

oh probably nothing less than a ps3 will be able to read the big discs

[brinstar]

hehe

if you're serious: sah-WEET

if you're just picking on toss: aww leave 'im alone

[Tikker]

400gb disk is supposedly real (in a lab somewhere)

I dunno if you'll ever actually see them in the wild, but it bodes well that they can cram that much onto a disk