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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..

  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. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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?!?