Ritek boasting ten-layer HD DVD / Blu-ray discs?
By Darren Murph 
posted January 12th 2007 6:16PM
posted January 12th 2007 6:16PM
Forget single-layer media, that dual-layer stuff that was all the rage last year, and even the triple-layered flavor that got announced just days ago. Heck, even an eight-layer disc would be forced to bow down to the sure-to-be-outdone-soon ten-layer rendition supposedly crafted by Ritek. No sooner than we all celebrated the idea of a 51GB HD DVD, Ritek has reportedly "designed HD media with a full ten layers," not to mention the supposed three- and four-layer coasters it has laying around while working its way up. As if that weren't impressive enough, it also claims that this multi-layer process can be applied to both HD DVD and Blu-ray, a feat that Toshiba's recent creation can't quite compete with. Of course, Ritek officials were quick to point out that the "real barrier to this advancement is the lack of reader / writer laser diodes to support the additional layers," but if there really are 250GB BD discs just waiting to get spun, those lasers aren't too far behind.[Via Slashdot]
Would these people please stop wasting time and just get on with storage on crystals!!! I mean, come on. Stop with the layers and layers and layers and just go holographic already. I am sick of this beating old tech to death R&D time/money wasting going on.
Thanks.
250GB optical media? :O , if only they could get those down to CD-R prices ($0.25) soon.
It's because of these sort of advancements it would be a waste of money to buy new HDDVD or BluRay drives now, because they would not be able to read disks when the format becomes standard, plus we still don't know for sure which one to buy.
Is Ritek the same company as Ridata or does the above photo have nothing to do with the article?
Ritek is the company. Ridata is a trademark name owned by Ritek.
From wikipedia:
"In 2005, companies such as Optware and Maxell have produced a 120 mm disc that uses a holographic layer to store data to a potential 3.9 TB (terabyte), which they plan to market it under the name Holographic Versatile Disc. Another company, InPhase Technologies, is developing a competitive format."
Hello 3.9 TB disc!!!
Go Optware and Maxell!!!
Personally i think it would be better to just advance solid state storage technology and distribute everything on that, It's cheaper/way less complicated/more compact/less mechanical so less things to break/faster/etc etc.
I mean imagine if movies just came on SD Card type things that had a super fast read spead and a super high capacity.
Maybe its just me but it seems way easier and better to do (im not too sure how anti-copy protection would work though)
oh my god, thank you,
iv been saying that for a while, put programs, movies, and yes il say it videogames on solid state, im sick of loading screens,
that and then maybe we can use the actual game cartridge to save. what a novel idea instead of paying $30 for a memory card to save, does anyone remember this concept from say the super nintendo, i just read about the release of the 64gb SSD with SATA connectors, its not long before they close in on the 200gb, 300gb, 500gb, and 1TB mark just like regular drives now
"Personally i think it would be better to just advance solid state storage technology and distribute everything on that, It's cheaper"
Um, no it's not cheaper. Thats why we moved away from solid state and to optical in the first place.
The gap between Blu-ray and hd dvd gets bigger.
I guess this would be nice, but it won't really happen, will it? I remember when DVD was coming out, they touted that they could get 4 layers on each side, and so a double sided disk could hold a maximum of 32 GB. Only 9 GB DL DVD came out. So I don't see anything past 2 layer, possibly 3 layer HD-DVD coming out.
And it would be nice for solid state movies to come out (size and speed), and I think that it will happen once the technology really matures and prices come down.
Okay, here is something to consider. A 700mb CD has roughly 5,872,025,600 bits over X amount of area (whatever the area of a CD is). A 250GB optical disc will have 2,147,483,648,000 bits in that same area. That means that there are 366 bits on a 250G optical disc in the place of a single bit on a standard CD.
For a 3.9 terabyte disc there are a total of 34,304,762,800,000 bits and 5,842 bits squeezed in the area of a single CD bit.
That means that a single scratch will destroy 366 and 5,842 times the data on a 250gig and 3.9 TB disc (respectively) than the data destroyed on a single CD.