Mini-Opticals, The future?

oxygene · 6 May 2007 at 15:43

I was just chatting this over with a few mates and thought I'd share my ideas. What with the new range of opticals coming in (blu-ray and HD-DVD) why dont companies think about shrinking down the standard size of disks?

Allow me to explain. Basically we already see 6cm disks. As dvds, they hold 1.6gb capacity. With Blu-Ray or HD-DVD methods they could hold easily more then a standard dvdr. Still making it a good step. Also if 6cm disks became the norm then the size of the drives could shrink down to 3.5" drive sizes, and we would never need the 5.25" drive bays again, reducing the size of cases, storage for films in shops or at home, everything. Cheeper manufacturing costs, less waste. Suddenly the world is a better place

Hell I would love my film collection to be all on mini-opticals, stored in their little cases! The companies with the new tech could prolly easily shrink down the size of the disks central hole by miles too, making a small grip method or something. This would increase capacity even more.

Thoughts?

Calder · 6 May 2007 at 15:46

Yes, technology will get smaller.

Have a cookie.

Conscript · 6 May 2007 at 15:47

You have to re-buy your entire film collection, again.

Apart from that; good idea.

knowledge123 · 6 May 2007 at 15:48

like gamecube disks? I personally like the GC disks as they easier to handle, and smaller disk size means less scratches, making the hole smaller, and surrounding area is also def a good idea imho.

Rebelius · 6 May 2007 at 15:53

what about just waiting till solid state is cheaper? Compact Flash movie collection would be smaller and scratch-proof.

Helium_Junkie · 6 May 2007 at 15:55

Calder said:
Yes, technology will get smaller.

Have a cookie.

I think you just single handedly lowered the average IQ of the forum.

I would like to see the next generation of media be a smaller item. The chance to reduce PC sizes is also very appealing.

Rebelius · 6 May 2007 at 15:59

I'm not sure I'm in favour of this, I bought a tiny Memory Stick thing a couple of weeks ago and put it somewhere safe. I now have NO IDEA where that safe place was.

I would prefer PC games to come in the big old boxes - they were cool.

Calder · 6 May 2007 at 16:01

Helium_Junkie said:
I think you just single handedly lowered the average IQ of the forum.

All he basically said was "will the current format of media get smaller?"

Of course it will.

Hedge · 6 May 2007 at 16:03

Calder said:
All he basically said was "will the current format of media get smaller?"

Of course it will.

Hes making a discussion ya buttmunch

Conscript · 6 May 2007 at 16:03

Rebelius said:
I'm not sure I'm in favour of this, I bought a tiny Memory Stick thing a couple of weeks ago and put it somewhere safe. I now have NO IDEA where that safe place was.

I would prefer PC games to come in the big old boxes - they were cool.

As gadgets decrease in size, the size and number of your safe places will also decrease at a similar rate. So this shouldn't be a problem.

oxygene · 18 Feb 2008 at 09:07

Revisiting this thread after so long theer has beena ehuge jump in solid state technology. The points above are still valid but the problem remains with solid state that no one will mass produce films on such mediums until there are read only varieties, and they become cheeper. But flash disks are now way smaller then mini-opticals would be, and have a similar or higher capacity.

Any new thoughts or feelings on this?

Booner! · 18 Feb 2008 at 09:12

You won't need discs...... everything will be downloadable. High fiber networks will allow high def content to be streamed and there will be no need to store hundreds of DVD cases in my room.

Darkwave · 18 Feb 2008 at 09:22

Rebelius said:
what about just waiting till solid state is cheaper? Compact Flash movie collection would be smaller and scratch-proof.

This is the right idea for sure. Bring on mass-usage of universal storage cards.