ah, but I believe they mean 24 Giga-bits per second, meaning 3 Gigabytes. Still, there is no way the data will be uncompressed. I'm sure new formats (such as a new mpeg, or h.26) will be out, making data size manageable. By 2015, I sure hope gimmicks like Bluray and HDDVD are done away with, and digital distribution via fiber or wireless are put in place.
24 Gb = 3GB, so technically, they could hold about 33 seconds. Commercial on a disk anyone??? But who needs a storage medium, if this ever catches, it'll all be VOD right? Hopefully they'll stop compressing it by then. VOD on timeWarner is so compressed I'd rather watch a standard DVD. It doesn't even compare to Blu...
If you really think we will still be using optical discs for the storage of movies when this tech becomes viable, then you have another thing coming. Not to mention the 24Gbps is the raw stream not an MP4(or by that time MP6) stream.
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This is stupid - a storage medium could never exist based on today's technology to even deliver this content!
24 gbps? That means even the mythical 100 GB Holographic discs could hold about 4.5 seconds of content. Give me a break.
Actually no, it would be 33.333333333333333333 seconds per disk, but still it would require a TB disk to record one episode of Robot Chicken.
I think you've got your bits mixed with your Bytes there
ah, but I believe they mean 24 Giga-bits per second, meaning 3 Gigabytes. Still, there is no way the data will be uncompressed. I'm sure new formats (such as a new mpeg, or h.26) will be out, making data size manageable.
By 2015, I sure hope gimmicks like Bluray and HDDVD are done away with, and digital distribution via fiber or wireless are put in place.
24 Gb = 3GB, so technically, they could hold about 33 seconds. Commercial on a disk anyone??? But who needs a storage medium, if this ever catches, it'll all be VOD right? Hopefully they'll stop compressing it by then. VOD on timeWarner is so compressed I'd rather watch a standard DVD. It doesn't even compare to Blu...
That's 24 gigabits, so make that about 36 seconds. And remember, this is uncompressed, the compressed stream will be much smaller.
That said, this does seem excessive and impractical outside a few niche uses, such as an outdoor screens.
If you really think we will still be using optical discs for the storage of movies when this tech becomes viable, then you have another thing coming. Not to mention the 24Gbps is the raw stream not an MP4(or by that time MP6) stream.
no moron. holographic or HVD is 100 TB. TERABYTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!