Blue-Laser DVD Formats Wars

killmore notes a story running on ZDNet talking about incompatible blue laser formats of Blue-Laser DVDs which can store 36GB of data. The new format is from Toshiba & NEC and boasts backwards compatibility with the current standards for DVDs.

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Wow thats alot of date

[bdigit]

which can store 36GB of date. Now I can fit my whole schedule on one dvd.

mysterious future

[sweeney37]

I see... I see...

VHS vs. Beta II: The Search for More Money

Mike

36GB of date

[stratjakt]

Thousands of slashbots stare at each other in bewilderment.

"What's a date?"

Re:36GB of date

[L. VeGas]

"What's a date?"

It's kind of like sex, but with another person.

What a paradox! My mind is spinning!

[L. VeGas]

An incompatible format that boasts backwards-compatability.

Blue laser......mmm..

[DJ Rubbie]

Who cares how much data or what data format it can store! All I want is to remove the top cover of the drive and replace it with plexiglass, mod the computer case so there's also a plexiglass so the pretty blue laser light can actually shine through the case. mmm...

Of course, this is quite expensive, unless someone can show me a blue laser that I can attach to the computer that will automatically point towards the eyes of whoever snooping over my back....

Mmmmmmm

[wazzzup]

[eyelids half-shut, drool running out of corner of mouth]

Mmmmmmm....36GB should give me more than enough room to do everything I ever wanted to do on a date.

Yes, even that. Mmmmmmmmmm.

Won't this sort of thing defeat the purpose of

[Ishin]

special edition dvds? How is Peter Jackson supposed to sell two versions of the same movie two times only four months apart if they're both the same number of discs?