blue ray

[Dropkickmurphys]

does anyone have any infromation on the new type of disc "blue ray", when it is coming out etc.

 

[Praetor]

http://www.blu-ray.com/info/
BlueRay has been out since 2004 Course only in Japan (thank god )

 

[pcmagic]

yea

 

[backseatgunner]

Damn Jappanese.

 

[Praetor]

1. Easy on the racial comments
2. Blue Ray isnt all that great. Being essentially a proprietory technique spearheaded by Sony isnt exactly what i'd call convincing

 

[backseatgunner]

1. Easy on the racial comments
2. Blue Ray isnt all that great. Being essentially a proprietory technique spearheaded by Sony isnt exactly what i'd call convincing

Sorry, I should have entered a <sarcasm></sarcasm.>
I'm part Japanese btw, no racism intended.

 

[jjsevdt]

I like the format. It has a lot to offer, but god forbid we accept a change in our comfort zone. They are experimenting on adding more layers and acheive storage un heard of with HD-DVD

 

[Faaj]

PS3 is going ot have it
so lets see until next year spring.

 

[lynx6200]

Well, of course PS is by sony as well, so why wouldnt they implement their own technology...

 

[TonyBAMF]

Why do we need that big of a disk for HD?
I watched Terminator 2 in 1080p (thats progresive not interlace mind you) on 1 DVD in full quality.

 

[ripken2004]

blu-ray is up to 80gig now, right? too bad we wont have it for a few years tho, plus it costs thousands, it would be nice to backup my whole hdd on a single disk

 

[TonyBAMF]

blu-ray is up to 80gig now, right? too bad we wont have it for a few years tho, plus it costs thousands, it would be nice to backup my whole hdd on a single disk

In years you are looking at Terabytes HDs, so backing up HD's will still requiere multiple disks .

 

[NeuromancerWGDD'U]

In years you are looking at Terabytes HDs, so backing up HD's will still requiere multiple disks .

1 Terabyte hard-drives are already available. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822155306
(technically it's multiple drives, but they function as one) It'll be years before it's financially viable for personal computers, and even then...come on, who needs 1 tb of storage?

For more info on Blu-ray I highly recommend reading http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050616/index.html
I believe that now Blu-ray developers are claiming to have 8 layer disks in the labs! That's approaching 200 GB, ON ONE DISK!

 

[TonyBAMF]

People said the same thing with 1GB.
What I ment about the 1TB was a single drive.

 

[DCIScouts]

And futhermore, there's the Double-Layer DVD's as well

 

[kof2000]

believe! there are people that uses that much space. i have around 14TB of hdds spaces used not to mentions the extra dvd and cd discs.

 

[loeakaodas]

And futhermore, there's the Double-Layer DVD's as well

They don't offer enough space and are expensive. Right now DVD-R is the best and cheapest way of storage.

But I just can't wait till Bluray becomes more widespread so prices drop and I can have something that will reduce the TBs of DVDs that I have.

 

[NeuromancerWGDD'U]

Blu-Ray disks will additionally require much tougher disk-surface protection (since the data is almost right against the disk surface). The proposed material can be bought for regular DVD disks, but at the hefty price of about 5 USD (per disk, mind you), Blu-Ray will be a bit pricey compared to alternatives.