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Blu-ray Capacity Increase Via Firmware
LordofEntropy writes "Blu-ray.com reports that Sony and Panasonic have announced a new optical disc evaluation technology that increases capacity from 25GB to 33.4GB. The tech uses existing Blu-ray diodes and is accomplished via firmware upgrade. The article says it is not known if and when the upgrade will be adopted into the Blu-ray spec. However, given that Sony and Panasonic are behind it, 'it will likely happen later this year.'"
My "56k" modem never got above 48k due to crappy transport media.....
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
I can already put a Gig on a CD, It's called winzip.
When a 1TB HDD cheaper than a internal bluray drive, who in the right mind would get bluray when the HDD is clearly much more convenient to use and arguably more reliable? Previously during the CD/DVD era optical discs are so much superior in terms of capacity/price to everything else but the situation today has been reversed so much you couldn't help thinking optical discs are more-or-less obsolete.
For the purposes of backups, optical media has always been tedious.
Who wants to have 50 discs to back up their stuff?
Also, with the price of 1tb drives dropping weekly, and they're already nearly cheap as chips, you'd be a retard to fork out for a blueray burner + 50 discs.
Flash is getting quite cheap too.
I suspect that in the not too distant future, distributable media will change to something based on the SD or miniSD standard. ROM most likely.
ROM should be cheaper than rewritable flash especially with the economies of scale studios would be looking at.
64gb? No worries.
128?
1tb? Wait a bit longer.
Scratches? Media integrity? Not an issue.
Rewritable will always remain more expensive, but who cares? Optical is rubbish.