Pioneer shows off 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray Disc, affirms compatibility with current players
By Darren Murph 
posted December 2nd 2008 7:35AM
posted December 2nd 2008 7:35AM
posted December 2nd 2008 7:35AM
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Seriously getting tired of the pathetic models-holding-new-technology strategy. What ever happened to just using a whitescreen background?
But if you show her a 400gb blu-ray disc she'll sleep with you.
She makes me thick.
wodhelia, skipping school made you thick, don't kid yourself.
It's mostly the Asian press shots that do that, although it is getting more popular stateside.
Oh come on, you know it's mostly a male audience that cares about crap like 400GB BluRay discs. Like what's the likely ratio of guys to girls even buying a BluRay player (for themselves-whining until your girl buys you a BluRay player doesn't count).
Man, we've come a long way since the floppy...
Nothing in that pic makes me think floppy...
"but HD-DVD will win cause it costs less to manufacture than Blu Ray..."
-some dummy on Engadget
More like hard disk...
WHERE IS YOUR 360 NOW??? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Also, predict a rise in PS3 sales if these things become cheaper. And PS3 firmware is updated to support 4320p video playback.
We've come a long way since data tape....... I think I have some in my "archival" storage...... It still blows my mind how my phone has more computing power than my first computer I bought with my own money.....
Cant believe one day someone will laugh about using up terabytes of information.......
"Nothing in that pic makes me think floppy..."
I don't know, a disk in a casing reminds me of something... Oh yea! A floppy.
So that's what pioneer looks like.
This is fail posting in comments, but I'm doing it anyway.
Data BDs... w00t!!
-Pie
Well let me get the ball rolling on this...damn engadget more hot Asian girls. I am loving it. Also nice more blu ray storage spec news
Jesus, if she is hot I'd hate to see your ugly. Look at the painful smile for a start. Now I'm not saying she is ugly, but she definitely isn't hot. Think average!
lol that girl is proper ugly... what are you talking about!?
Avarage.. to ugly, let me guess you compare her to the pr0n pics you got in your basement?
That said, rather amusing that whatever is being showed off by some goodlooking girl who most likely has no clue what she is holding. Marketing seems sometimes so often, grab a good looking chick, put product X in a shiney box ... profit!
think dog
When is the digital delivery revolution gonna happen? I don't want another dumb disc type... Hurry up and make my internet faster, so I can keep my movies in my locker online, instead of walking around like a dumbass with a disc in my hand...
Just try to say this without sounding retarded "I have a disc in my hand"...
You CAN'T DO IT!
The real question is when is the digital detachable penis revolution going to happen? I'm sick of having it itch and would like to upload and download it at will.
Yeah..because nothing is more hot then a guy showing a girl a disc
scratch the disc, girl alone will do :)
i think you misspelled something...
What are you talking about? I can't keep my girlfriend off me when I show her my different storage capabilities
Cash, credit card and loans capability?
...she's hot...? Lee Hyori is hot, Mina is hot, my filipina ex-girlfriend is hot.
Get out more.
That's totallly unfair to compare a Korean girl (Lee Hyori) to a chinese girl (like the model with a terrible smile)
any chinese girl, can't hold a candle to any korean girl out there.
Huh? What disc?
She has NO idea what she is holding.
Not if you're in the room.
That's probably what she said too...
Love the photo.
Who's Polaroid did they borrow for that shot?
They touched it up too around her face, didn't do good enough though.
Holy crap!
With this much space, I could record the next year of my life on one disc.
In SD of course.
Just so long as you edit out the going to the bathroom or engading in illegal activites parts you should be ok
Technically smearing treacle over my naked body then fellating a hot dog isn't illegal, although I wouldn't want that included on the footage either.
"a DigiTimes report asserts that these are indeed compatible with Blu-ray readers already on the market"
Does that mean the whole 400GB is accessible with current players? Or only the 50 some gigabytes of it?
Most likely all of it. I have never heard of compatible discs that can only be read for a few layers.
Imagine the whole Bond series on 1 disc. Or all LOTR extended version in 1 disc...
Wow, think of all the porn you could put on a 1TB disc....wicked!
About 1TB's worth.
So basically blu-ray has the potential to be around for a very long time... far beyond the lifespan of the 1080p standard I'm assuming. With 1tb (or even just 200gb) of storage on a disc, I'm assuming that you could have much higher native resolution films.
Just too bad that current players, even if compatible with a 200gb disc, can't output more than 1080p...
Also it's too bad that your eyes can't actually see more than 1080p...
(Unless you are sitting two inches away from a giant screen.)
I assume the intended use of this is computer data, not video. Although it would certainly make the 'full season box set' rather smaller.
Incidentally I don't really believe the discs will work in existing players, or else not all of them... let's wait and see, if they ever release it...
I don't know about that... I'm thinking it would be pretty cool to have a film that is native to the native resolution of say, a 30" computer monitor (2560x1600)...
And sure there are diminishing returns for each increase in resolution (meaning you'd have to add a lot more pixels to get the same impact if you were going above 1080p compared to going from 480p to 1080p) but if you increase the resolution far enough above 1080p it would still be noticeable, no?
"Also it's too bad that your eyes can't actually see more than 1080p..."
Sam not this shit again.
When we get 70+ inch OLED's in our home's (we are talking 2013 here) THEN U WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE FuK FACE!! GO DIE IN A FIRE.
what are you a Standard Definition fanboy?
I wonder what we could put on a 400GB disc? I mean, I'm not saying "Oh, we'll never use this!" but in the next few years -- what do you seriously put on a 400GB disc?
For personal use, it's too risky to backup data on a 400GB drive. Even though Blu-ray is less susceptible to disc rot than DVDs are, I can't trust myself to keep it in the right conditions. Maybe corporate users would like it as an archiving medium, and I imagine they would keep it in a proper, safe environment..
I can see our UK government using this to safely and securely back up the country's child benefit information. Oh wait. ¬_¬
Daza, I can't see much consumer level use for this product. But it would be great if you're archiving stuff, and possibly for uses such as digital cinema too.