500gb Bluray prototype

[Dutch Guy]

Brendan Sheridan, Multimedia Division Product Manager at Pioneer, said that 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray discs might be enough for current demands, but that Pioneer envisages the need for “far greater capacities as HD streaming in particular becomes commonplace and users build larger files of digital content”.

Aren't current BR drives and the PS3 too slow to allow for HD streaming anyway making it irrelevant that they could read the 500GB discs?

 

[FrankJH]

Imagine a write error 1/2 way through

 

[JaFFa]

Aren't current BR drives and the PS3 too slow to allow for HD streaming anyway making it irrelevant that they could read the 500GB discs?

how do you mean ? like it cant read the data at required speed to stream HD movies?

How does a normal BD movie work ?

 

[TheOtherOption]

That's a pretty amazing thing to fit that much onto something like a BluRay disk, although yea the thought of being half way through a backup and it failing wouldn't be nice :/

 

[Priapus]

And here I thought 50GB discs were awesome..

But you are telling me they are able to do 400GB and 500GBs on 1 BR Disc?

 

[Robert1986]

Wonder how much hese discs would cost if they started selling them as blanks.

 

[Marcos]

How about they just hurry up on making 50GB recordable blu-ray discs cheap?

We dont need more than that for a long while

 

[stealthgeek]

will current BR drives be able to read that amount of layers though?

 

[Margaret]

I guess, but I can't see for example the PS3 making any use of it with the 2x drive speed, these discs would be great for storage though.

 

[V1N]

will current BR drives be able to read that amount of layers though?

Yep, that's the point, and one of the points of why it's so clever.

Because the firm’s in talks with the Blu-ray Disc Association to make the multi-layered method – which Sheridan said is compatible with Blu-ray devices – a standard for the format.

I guess, but I can't see for example the PS3 making any use of it with the 2x drive speed, these discs would be great for storage though.

Maybe not the 500gb disks, but the 100gb disks they've mentioned previously could be good for bluray movies, so they don't have to skimp on bitrate, or use a 2nd disk for extras, which some bluray releases do already.*
Also, was it the MGS4 crowd that said they already had to compress some stuff more than they wanted due to a 50gb limitation? I remember one of the devs certainly did.

More storage is always a better option, even if it's not needed, yet.
Vin.

EDIT * My Pirates of the Carribean bluray set are on two disks... they are spectacular looking movies, and if I remember, the movie disk alone was 45gb

 

[LewisStuart]

Wonder how much these discs would cost if they started selling them as blanks.

Probably more than a 500gb hard drive.

 

[PyroboyUK]

I sometimes think about what the manufacturers are managing to squeeze of of todays technology.

It didnt seem that long ago to me when a floppy disc could only hold just over 1mb.

I thought the DVD was a huge leap with the amount it could hold, now i see that a 400gb! disc has been created and a 500gb planned.....

 

[nintenjo]

Its not that big a feat.. i remember about 4 years ago a company had managed to get over 10 TB's onto one CD using a microscopic laser.. but the disc production cost of $30~$50 each meant it wasn't practical.

Although at the time they said they had almost got a 100TB disc readable. These things often come about.. and usually get put back and back and eventually come out on a new standard to ensure everyone buys new equipment.

 

[foz2000]

Bloody hell, 500gb on one disc. I can remember thinking 1.44mb was a lot! lol

 

["andy"]

mad how a piece of plastic so small can hold all that

 

[Dutch Guy]

mad how a piece of plastic so small can hold all that

Not the first time we will be amazed at the storage and it won't be the last time.

A long time ago we were all amazed about 20MB harddisks.

 

[Joebob]

Not the first time we will be amazed at the storage and it won't be the last time.

A long time ago we were all amazed about 20MB harddisks.

Lol, my first PC was a 386 DX66 with a 10MB HDD and 4MB RAM - I soon upgraded it myself to 8MB and bought some of the latest technology which was a CD ROM drive . I was amazed that I had a whole 10MB as the PC I used at work previously was a 286 with a 1MB HDD.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Lol, my first PC was a 386 DX66 with a 10MB HDD and 4MB RAM - I soon upgraded it myself to 8MB and bought some of the latest technology which was a CD ROM drive . I was amazed that I had a whole 10MB as the PC I used at work previously was a 286 with a 1MB HDD.

I still remember selling PC's without a harddisk and was in awe at the 286's and 386's with harddisk, they were being sold for €3,630 thirteen or so years ago which was a small fortune

 

[V1N]

I still remember selling PC's without a harddisk and was in awe at the 286's and 386's with harddisk, they were being sold for €3,630 thirteen or so years ago which was a small fortune

Yep, back when I was doing my training, none of the machines had HDDs to start with. We had this big box that could hold 10 x 8" floppies to make a sort of HDD with.

Then we got a machine, with a fantastic 5mb HDD.
We could install the OS (MS-DOS 3.1 I guess it would've been at that time) and Wordstar/Wordperfect, and our other apps. and have plenty of room left over.

I'll always remember my first go on a 286... with it's "TURBO" button... capable of incredible speeds of up to 12mhz.

Then I moved on to a company and set up their network, in 1989. Used MS-DOS 3.3 and Novell 2.11 I think it was, a fantasic, state of the art, 386sx20, with a staggering 40mb of MFM HDD space. That was always enough to run the dumb terminals, and use the server as a machine as well. Also had an amazing 40mb tape drive for backups.

Times are changing fast

Vin.

EDIT: and now I think about it, I still have that machine here in the server room, on the floor in a corner.