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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.

  2. 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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    I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!

  3. 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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    So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
  4. 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?