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Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-it-better dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Who'll bet against... by localman57 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    By making all the writers that they license to use the technology incorporate anti-piracy detection software in the driver? Then use some kind of unlocking scheme so that the hardware will only write when using their drivers? That sounds about right.

  2. Too little, too late by swilver · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wake me when optical disc capacity exceeds harddisk capacity again... like it used to when the CD was released.

  3. Re:That's fine and dandy by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speaking of I/O, there's the problem of the actual HDMI/Displayport connection. Many 4k TVs only have a 30 Hz refresh rate at full resolution. Basically, the bandwidth of existing cables isn't enough to handle a 4k movie at a higher refresh rate. They're going to have to come up with a whole to cable standard just to deal with the increased resolution.

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  4. i hope they sell TV runs in one box by alen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    at a reasonable price

    i get it selling game of thrones season by season. but there is no reason why i shouldn't be able to buy an entire TV run of a 20 year old show in one box for $40 or so

  5. DVD Life Time 2-5 years by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    An optical disc will outlive a hard drive by decades.

    Only ones you purchase pre-recorded, not ones you write which have a lifetime of 2-5 years. Even then while hard drives may fail it is easy to keep a RAID array up and they are very easy to copy the data to and from. So in 10 years time when the 8TB solid state memory stick or 1000+-year lifetime quartz technology drive is available you can easily copy all the files over to it...unlike your optical discs which you will have to load into the machine individually to copy the data over a speeds well below that of a hard drive.