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45GB Triple-Layer HD DVDs
m4c north writes "Toshiba has developed a new DVD-ROM: 45GB spread over 3 layers. From the press release (which has a few illustrations) the new discs have the ability "to record twelve hours of high-definition movies on a single disc." They've also added a "dual-layer hybrid ROM disc comprised of a dual-layer HD DVD-ROM side and a dual-layer DVD-ROM side." Japan Today's article adds, "The huge capacity means that a single disk can store a Hollywood movie trilogy." Do I smell yet another Star Wars re-re-release? Toshiba will take the wraps off the new DVDs at the Media-Tech Expo 2005 in Las Vegas. The HD DVD Promotion group offers the press release in PDF."
Now it will only take 20 of these to backup my porn!
45 GB and a 55 gallon drum of Astroglide... I'll be set for life!
Twelve hours of high-definition pr0n on a single disc.
The first 80 minutes of these discs will hold music...the remainder of the disc will hold the RIAA's DRM.
This is what, the 42nd new DVD format this week?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
more likely 52x16x12x5x4x4x4x16x16x DV/C/HD DV/D+-*RW-ROM ;)
kinda reads like a regex doesn't it?
Programming is an Art. I am an Artist. Does that mean I get to wear a daft hat?
10-15 minutes of porn is sufficient for general public, really. No need to be HD quality either.
Not long ago I purchased the "Smokey and the Bandit" trilogy on DVD ($12.50 at Staples), and was suprised that it fit on one DVD.
They used the trick of the double sided DVD to acomplish this mission.
Since only Smokey and the Bandit 3 is on one side I can safely say that there at least one side with no quality data on it (how horrble must a script be for Burt Renolds to turn it down?)
I used to have a cool sig, back when I cared
...of this article is out of touch with movie releases. I think he meant re-re-re-re-re-re-release of Star Wars. Then again, maybe I missed a "re."
Quick, someone crash Goerge Lucas's computer before he reads this news!!!
-Valiss
Finally, a solution to cramming Longhorn onto a single disc.
It's already been done.
I had a roommate in 96/97 that refused to buy CD's because something better might come out.
Something better did come out in in 1998. It was called Napster.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
Yeah but ask a woman, something you have never seen before in the buff, what they prefer. All of them have told me they prefer a cut man because they don't stink like rotting cheese.
Squishing all four seasons of the Trailer Park Boys into a single-layer DVD makes for more fun and is compatable with all DVD-R capable players. Call me when the fallout ends from all the next generation DVD standards (a.k.a. the company with the biggest war chest tells us what we want to buy).
;-)
Recipe:
4 lbs DVDs
48 hours CPU time
1 mplayer
1 mkisofs
1 cdrecord
1 blank DVD
Three Drives for the Movie-kings who plunder and ply,
Seven for the Hardware-lords all but clones,
Nine for Portal Men doomed to buy
One for the DRM Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
One Drive to read them all, One Drive to write them,
One Drive to bring them all and with their lasers byte them
In the Land of Discs where the data lies.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
High resolution? Like what? A picture of a vagina at the cellular level?
Not sure what is more disturbing, that fact I looked up Astroglide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroglide, or that the bottle in the picture on Wikipedia looks well used....
as if what a woman wants is important :)
bring on the rotting cheese!