Slashdot Mirror
Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015
SmartAboutThings writes "If you think optical discs are dead and are a sign of the past, maybe you need to take this into consideration – Sony and Panasonic have just announced in Tokyo that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of developing the next-generation optical discs that are said to have a recording capacity of at least 300GB. The two companies have even set a deadline for this ambitious project: before the end of 2015."
You obviously do not understand I/O. My DVD drive is SATA 6 GB/s, but the disc cannot spin fast enough to be read at 6 GB/s. Hence the reason it takes 30 minutes to write/verify a disc. The bottleneck is not the interface, but the mechanical spin of the disc.
sudo make me a sandwich
BluRay players require "updates" for DRM, and those are typically done via being Internet Connected (optionally USB Stick). The new DRM will most likely require Connectivity at some point as well. Some of my older BluRay discs no longer work in new players, even with updates. Broken ... by design.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I would actually be interested in Blu-Ray if it were open and not DRM'ed to death. 50 GB per disk with a $1 cost per disk in an unlocked format would have its followers but instead they would rather keep it locked up.
Writable Blu-Ray discs don't have any kind of DRM. If you have a Blu-Ray writer and software, you can write whatever you want on the disc. There is free and libre software available that runs on a variety of operating systems.
300GB is expensive to store?
What year do you live in?
You can get 3TB drives for $115. Building a Raid out of these is cheap and easy. Besides by the time these come out you will be able to likely transcode the video to a better type and save lots of space. As we do now with transcoding dvds to h264.
welcome to the definition of why people torrent. Torrent a bluray/rip it, and you'll never have to deal with random restrictions of rights which exist on Bluray players, etc. #1 cause of alleged piracy aka copyright infringement right there.
Really? Take a burned DVD over 5 years and try to read it. When I was in grad school I had a professor lose years of data because the disc decayed so badly. Granted the humidity and heat of Texas probably had something to do with it as well, but the discs themselves were in a dark place. You may be right regarding pressed optical media, but the consumer grade stuff will simply not outlast a decent hard drive.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin