500 Gigabytes of storage capacity in a standard DVD-size disc !
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
Wow! That's big enough for my entire porn cute furry animal pictures collection!
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
Windows 8 will be shipped on those. I had a dream..
A dogged, arrogant belief in self and the childlike idealism that comes with not knowing my limits. This is my greatest blessing, my priceless attribute.
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
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Wow! That's big enough for my entire porn cute furry animal pictures collection!
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Windows 8 will be shipped on those. I had a dream..
A dogged, arrogant belief in self and the childlike idealism that comes with not knowing my limits. This is my greatest blessing, my priceless attribute.
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Yet another media that won't be able to hold digital information more than a couple of years. Utterly pointless.
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I would bet that this disk when released will cost more than a 500GB hard drive (which can be had for less than $65 USA right now), and have a shorter lifespan.
John
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
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According to wikipedia they're inventing yet another video format for it. Why do they keep doing that? It's just bits, they could just put high resolution H.264 on it!
Eventually I see these things being used for 3D video when our HD TVs become obsolete and 3D becomes the new rage.
John
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According to wikipedia they're inventing yet another video format for it. Why do they keep doing that? It's just bits, they could just put high resolution H.264 on it!
Dunno, could be they figure than in 3-4 years CPUs will be enough fast enough to use something better than H.264. Is 500GB enough to do lossless video?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
Brilliant. I had heard about holographic storage, but thought it was at least 7-10 years away. I wonder if similar principles can also be applied to hard drives - I'd love to be able to carry around a small transparent cube, plug it into my computer and boot my entire OS from it (I know it's possible now, but not to the same extent)
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Dunno, could be they figure than in 3-4 years CPUs will be enough fast enough to use something better than H.264. Is 500GB enough to do lossless video?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Well that's no problem is it? By that time, just put something else on them.. What's the big deal? 500GB = approx 56 minutes of raw 1080p @ 25Hz But no, this makes no sense. For "normal" (real world recordings) video you can get at least 50% compression in a completely unnoticeable way. Even if you do no inter-frame prediction, you could store every frame as high quality jpg (90-95% quality) and get a 10:1 compression ratio without anyone noticing.
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Eventually I see these things being used for 3D video when our HD TVs become obsolete and 3D becomes the new rage.
John
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Well that's no problem is it? By that time, just put something else on them.. What's the big deal? 500GB = approx 56 minutes of raw 1080p @ 25Hz But no, this makes no sense. For "normal" (real world recordings) video you can get at least 50% compression in a completely unnoticeable way. Even if you do no inter-frame prediction, you could store every frame as high quality jpg (90-95% quality) and get a 10:1 compression ratio without anyone noticing.
99% of the time there's no benefit in going from lossy audio to lossless; but the extra space on BR disks means that it's being done today. Your problem is that you're thinking like an engineer; those sorts of decisions are made by marketing. :doh:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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100 DVDs onto a single disk[^]
Gary
And the DRM will consume 66% of the available space.
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Brilliant. I had heard about holographic storage, but thought it was at least 7-10 years away. I wonder if similar principles can also be applied to hard drives - I'd love to be able to carry around a small transparent cube, plug it into my computer and boot my entire OS from it (I know it's possible now, but not to the same extent)
