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1.5 TB DVD by 2010

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-we're-getting-somewhere dept.

prostoalex writes "The consortium of three universities and four Japanese companies is investing $25M into a project, that is supposed to deliver a 1.5 TB (that's a terabyte and a half) Digital Versatile Disk by 2010. The Inquirer story quotes multiple layers being used for storage." More importantly, they claim that this will be backwards compatible to existing DVD technology.

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  1. Unfortunately by efedora · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No one needs the space because by 2010 all digital material is covered by copyrights - which have been extended for 250 years.

    1. Re:Unfortunately by robbyjo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So you assume that all that big space are for DVD rips and MP3s? How about storing gene info? Backups? Anyone?

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  2. Of course... by JanneM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the chance of that hardware ever being available without DRM? Not all that useful if we cannot actually use it for backing up any data, moving the discs to any other device and so on.

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  3. Re:Nice to see the correct name by Proc6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Fact Check:

    http://www.dvdforum.org/tech-dvdprimer.htm

    What does DVD mean?
    The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc.

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  4. Re:Backwards compatible? by aengblom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    will be ready for yet another format change by 2010. Somehow I doubt it

    If HDTV is really coming, they may be

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  5. but... but... but... by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't WANT more on DVDs. I want bigger HARD DRIVES.

    Thing is, I don't want to have hundreds of stupid little plastic discs in their stupid little plastic boxes lining shelves in my place.

    Thats why I ripped all my CDs to my hard drive and hooked my comp. to my stereo. I listen to stuff I never bothered to before because it was a pain going through all my 1000+ CDs.

    I want to store all my DVDs on my HD for the same reason. But I cant as it is!

    Give us 50,000 TB hard drives FIRST (what comes after tera??)

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    1. Re:but... but... but... by Helter · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, I need the best of both worlds. Huge amounts of space, easily rewritable, AND removable/reliable.

      Until that arrives I'll stick to the combination of HD and removable media, but I'm waiting...

      Incidentally, if/when this happens it'll also require a dramatic shift if OS design. To have the installed OS act generic you would probably have to have the hardware abstraction layer stored in the hardware, instead of in the OS system data. That way I could just pop my disks into any computer I wanted and use it just like it was mine.

    2. Re:but... but... but... by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Migrating to a new PC is no problem. I have 2 HDs, one 180 gig for media, and the other for the system.
      I just pop out the media drive and put it in my new system.

      And that way I don't have to dig around in a stack trying to find the right piece of removable media. Everything is on line all the time. So as I lie in bed I can use my remote to cue up any one of over 10k tracks of music.

      I like neatness. Everything self-contained in a little machine. Everything instantly accessible online. I HATE swapping discs, I HATE having CD shelves.

      I HATE having media which has no need of being wedded to a physical format being FORCED to be. I want the MUSIC, I don't want a chunk of plastic.

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  6. Yes, but will it be recordable? by jridley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure a lot of people see this and say "Finally, I'll be able to back up in a reasonable way!" but it needs to be recordable.

    Even current DVDs are only recordable in one layer. You can't record directly to multiple layers, you have to master two layers separately and then wafer them together in the manufacturing process.

    While a > 1TB disc is a cool idea, if it's only usable on commercially duplicated, mass-distributed data, it's of very, very limited use.

  7. what? by BarrettAnderson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BY 2010, according to senior Intel architects, a CPU will have processing power equivalent to the brain of a bumble bee

    now that was random...

  8. New Name? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    7 years down the road and 300x the capacity, surely it won't just be called a DVD. Maybe DVD2, SDVD, or DVD+? Or maybe even an entirely new acronym with no official meaning.

  9. Think of the scratch damage! by dnoyeb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1 scratch and you can wipe a whole movie! whoopee!

    Essentially less fault tolerant, and less ability to make backup copies.

    Who wants that?