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Blu-Ray DVDs Hit 100 GB

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-movie dept.

Xesdeeni writes "According to The Register and MacWorld, TDK has unveiled a Blu-Ray DVD with four layers that will hold a whopping 100 GB of data. This is shortly after the previously reported HD-DVD announced three-layer HD-DVD that would hold a "mere" 45 GB. Unfortunately, this is also on the heels of the news that the HD DVD unification talks have stalled."

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  1. groovy... by zxnos · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...i can now fit my 1/100th of my porn collection on one disk. sweet.

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    1. Re:groovy... by rampant+mac · · Score: 4, Funny
      Along the same lines, I was complaining to a co-worker a few days ago about how my Firewire drive was on it's last legs... It's a 100g drive and nearing capacity so I needed to buy a new one anyway.

      He was blown away that I had that many files as it was, and I was about to make a humorous comment about the boatloads of porn I have on it, when a female co-worker walked in...

      "Oh, it's all Photoshop documents that I've done! Some of `em are almost 400 megs each!"

      Except everyone in the office knows I can't draw to save my life. Now she won't even talk to me. :(

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    2. Re:groovy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't kid yourself... she wouldn't talk to you in the first place..

    3. Re:groovy... by milimetric · · Score: 3, Funny

      ok, the woman and porn issue came up so here I am... to the rescue. Women don't like porn as a simple demand / supply issue. We supply too much sex so they don't demand anything from porn. They supply almost no sex and the sex they do supply is bad quality so we demand a lot from our porn. But they're clever too... if we stop giving them sex, they just get it from somewhere else and feel in the right too. So how do you solve this dilema? Simple! Fuck'em!

  2. YAY by lupinstel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yay! Now we just have to wait 3 years for this to come to the market and 3 more years for it to be affordable. Then I will be all over it, until something better comes along.

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  3. Unification by DuBois · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps they should both talk to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon?

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  4. excellent! we're closer to by Savatte · · Score: 5, Funny

    all 3 lord of the rings movies on one dvd without any pauses between the movies or needing to switch discs. Numb ass, here I come!

  5. Re:excellent! we're closer to by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    you misspelt 'Dumb'.

    sorry, just too easy to pass...

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  6. I hear you by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's great thet they got 100GB disk.
    Now fill it up and let a four year old put it in and out of a player a few time.
    If it is still readable, then you know you are on to something.

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  7. Yippy! by ucblockhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    The capacity of these drives that I can't buy yet goes up and up! Oh boy!! I'm so excited that there's a format in a lab somewhere completely unavailable to me that could back up so many of my files on a single disk, if only I had one!

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  8. Overkill? by moviepig.com · · Score: 4, Funny
    Blu-Ray DVD with four layers . . . will hold a whopping 100 GB of data.

    For movie-consumers, now those DVD extras will include the cast party, the set-security tapes . . .

    And TV-fans now can buy a single disk with the entire 2004 season of . . . well . . . TV.

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  9. More layers by nokiator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only one to notice a weird correlation between the race for putting more blades on razors (three or four) and the race for putting more layers on next gen DVD formats (three or four).

  10. so what? by jspectre · · Score: 3, Funny

    who cares? none of this means anything to me, wanna know why?

    I CAN'T BUY A PLAYER OR DISCS IN EITHER FORMAT RIGHT NOW!

    so who cares how much it can hold?!?!

    ATTN: I hearby announce my new holographic crystal format can now store 1,000,000,000 tetrabites on a crystal the size of a grain of salt. This device not yet available for sale, please come back in 100 years.

    I'm going to patent it all too and sue the bejeezus out of anyone who even attempts to copy it!

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  11. Re:Think of all the stuff you can fit. by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll actually start encouraging the cast to screw up in front of the camera so they can have more blooper shots to pad the movie DVD with. Soon they'll have "Show up drunk on the set" day.

    Maybe they'll start showing the business bloopers too. Morris in accounting: "And this is crazy! See, I forgot to include capital depreciation in that quarter so we took a tax hit on the film editing systems. Everyone just cracked up!"

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  12. Only three layers? by wheany · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is shortly after the previously reported HD-DVD announced three-layer HD-DVD that would hold a "mere" 45 GB.

    Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with four layers! When will they learn?!?