enigma-penguin Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Japanese Hardware maker Pioneer has developed a technique which will allow optical drives to store 500GB of data. That's according to the Nikkei Business Daily, which reported that the technique will use ultraviolet lasers, which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers. The paper reported that Pioneer uses the beam to write data holes in a master disk, each separated by 70 nanometres. That gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk. While there are technical problems creating data cavities so small, Pioneer has, apparently, solved problems associated with scattering of the laser by developing a carbon mask using photosensitive resin. ? View: >Full Story Source: >The Inquirer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 I hate when company says stuff like that to make rumor and make increase their value at dow jones let's hope it's true anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Its neat that they can do that, but I can't even imagine why you would need that much space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radium Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 What's next? X-ray and gamma ray discs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagerd0g Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Its neat that they can do that, but I can't even imagine why you would need that much space. 584884695[/snapback] with hard drives getting bigger, you can back up more of your stuff. there are a few people on this forum that have total storage that reaches 500GB and beyond. I'm sure something like this would alleviate their anxiety of backing up so much data. It's a matter of using 106 4.7GB burnt DVDs vs 1 500GB burnt DVD discs. I wonder how long it takes to burn that much data :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lare2 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 ^^ Lets not forget all that porn :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Wow, so Blu-Ray is already obsolete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma-penguin Veteran Posted November 8, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2004 Wow, so Blu-Ray is already obsolete. 584884748[/snapback] Isnt that just the way of all things :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted November 8, 2004 Global Moderator Share Posted November 8, 2004 JC those disks are going to cost like $100 a piece at least... not to mention like $500+ for the drive when it first comes out (in like 2008 im sure) :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal2002 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Who cares? There's 1TB HVD's, more then 500GB, no? None of these disc's will be used in the mainstream anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 JC those disks are going to cost like $100 a piece at least... not to mention like $500+ for the drive when it first comes out (in like 2008 im sure) :p 584884783[/snapback] I'd say it's worth it though, that is if you really want a single disc that holds 500GB instead of 100+ regular DVD discs. What would be awesome with these 500GB discs is that you could have a whole series (perhaps at even HDTV res) on one disc :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporkguy Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Holy f*kin sh*t :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empty Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 good deal, id gladly pay ?100 for a RW disc that would allow me to carry around almsot every file i own whereever i go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 :o wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbet Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Its neat that they can do that, but I can't even imagine why you would need that much space. 584884695[/snapback] Everybody mark this comment for posterity... ;) :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbet Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I'd say it's worth it though, that is if you really want a single disc that holds 500GB instead of 100+ regular DVD discs. What would be awesome with these 500GB discs is that you could have a whole series (perhaps at even HDTV res) on one disc :D 584884863[/snapback] what about questions regarding durability? I'd be ****ed if my collection of movies on a single 500GB disc goes bad after two years or so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepolcire Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I spit water on my screen reading that. That rules! But what about when data can be stored on solid crystal structures like an Energon cube :D /me wishes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahfunaki Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 crazy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagerd0g Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I'd say it's worth it though, that is if you really want a single disc that holds 500GB instead of 100+ regular DVD discs584884863[/snapback] heck ya... imagine backing up 500GB of data using DVDs only and your computer is beeping at you "Please insert disk number 58"... beep.... "WAKE UP FOO!"... beep! :moon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 None of these disc's will be used in the mainstream anyway. 584884792[/snapback] I'm sure they said that about CD-ROMs when they came out ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxpor Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 lets make these, then make quad layer versions of them! :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquid Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Its neat that they can do that, but I can't even imagine why you would need that much space. 584884695[/snapback] Well for one, video. Video files uncompressed are massive. I maen 1 hour is probably 100GB +. If you have ever watched a DVD on an HDTV you can see the quality isn't that great. With more space, the compression can be lowered giving us higher quality video. Also we can make teh switch to MPEG 4 and H.264. HD Video. Remember, DVD's are NOT High Definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalfox Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Its neat that they can do that, but I can't even imagine why you would need that much space. 584884695[/snapback] Well because, everyday that passes, we need more space to store our music, movies, games, images, text files,etc... I have 320GB in my PCDesk and a IOMEGA External disk with 250GB, still i'm reaching the limit... Well, true i have some ilegal files :laugh: , but most of my files are legal... Anyway it's good that companys are researching new storages ways... :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal2002 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Well for one, video. Video files uncompressed are massive. I maen 1 hour is probably 100GB +. If you have ever watched a DVD on an HDTV you can see the quality isn't that great. With more space, the compression can be lowered giving us higher quality video. Also we can make teh switch to MPEG 4 and H.264. HD Video. Remember, DVD's are NOT High Definition. 584888000[/snapback] Using H.264 (btw, that's MPEG-4 AVC) you don't need a 500GB disc for 1080x1920p72. The law of diminishing returns will kick in way before you can fill that. That's also with lossless audio at 8.1 (24 bit/96 kHz). That fact that you will be getting much less then those specs on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD basically means that movie studios and the end user has no use for it. At this point and time (and for the next 10+ years) you will not need that kind of space to produce DVD's. Of course, you could load up a 500GB disc with 4+ movies, but that's not what the consumer wants to buy. Things like this (and HVD's) will only be used for high end data back (Library of Congress type sh**) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
za3zoo3 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 (edited) GOD NOT ANOTHER WAR FORMAT :angry: WTF..., we doesn`t have dual-layer yet and it will be dream to switch to the blu-ray and HD :) Edited November 9, 2004 by za3zoo3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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