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..
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.
"corporate users would like it as an archiving medium"
So you just answered your own question! lol!
Also, how about home-workers like myself? I certainly don't want to be messing about with tape drives & their media, nor do I want to use lots of bandwidth for an online backup option, and I certainly don't want to pay the cost and 'leccy for a load of redundant hard drives to store data on.
At the end of the day, so long as the BD discs are kept in a cool, dark, dry environment they'll easily last for a decade or more...
Ever higher video quality perhaps... Higher bitrate, more complex extra features (entire video games in the movie extras bundled with the film?) higher resolution? 1080p isn't the height of attainable home screen resolution :)
how about a complete TV season on one disc? or even a complete TV SERIES on one disc....no more Season 1, Vol. 1 etc for Transformers cartoons, etc....
Not, it's obviously not the height of resolution, but it's approaching the height of what is useful in most situations. It's already well known that even 1080p largely goes to waste on TVs
My comment got cut off by using a less than symbol... I meant to say it goes to waste on TVs less than 50" at standard viewing distances. Going higher than 1080p will mean that you will need an even bigger TV or sit even closer to truly make out the detail. Something like QuadHD might be useful for gigantic 100" TVs or projections systems, but it will be largely useless for the vast majority of users. But, of course, that doesn't mean you can market and sell them.
It could reduce the number of discs in a multi-disc package. For example, BluRay supports a maximum of 48mbit/s for AV data (audio and video combined). This means that a current 50GB disc can store roughly 142 minutes of content (again, at highest bitrates). That's enough for a single movie, since actual bitrates can be adjusted lower.
A 400GB disc would bump that up to roughly 1138 minutes of content at the same bitrate (no doubt Lucas will be pleased). That's enough for an entire 24-episode season of an hour-long show (assuming 45 minutes per episode, after commercials are removed).
So, being able to store an entire HD season on a single disc is certainly a big advantage.
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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.
"I wonder what we could put on a 400GB disc?"
"corporate users would like it as an archiving medium"
So you just answered your own question! lol!
Also, how about home-workers like myself? I certainly don't want to be messing about with tape drives & their media, nor do I want to use lots of bandwidth for an online backup option, and I certainly don't want to pay the cost and 'leccy for a load of redundant hard drives to store data on.
At the end of the day, so long as the BD discs are kept in a cool, dark, dry environment they'll easily last for a decade or more...
Ever higher video quality perhaps... Higher bitrate, more complex extra features (entire video games in the movie extras bundled with the film?) higher resolution? 1080p isn't the height of attainable home screen resolution :)
how about a complete TV season on one disc? or even a complete TV SERIES on one disc....no more Season 1, Vol. 1 etc for Transformers cartoons, etc....
Not, it's obviously not the height of resolution, but it's approaching the height of what is useful in most situations. It's already well known that even 1080p largely goes to waste on TVs
My comment got cut off by using a less than symbol... I meant to say it goes to waste on TVs less than 50" at standard viewing distances. Going higher than 1080p will mean that you will need an even bigger TV or sit even closer to truly make out the detail. Something like QuadHD might be useful for gigantic 100" TVs or projections systems, but it will be largely useless for the vast majority of users. But, of course, that doesn't mean you can market and sell them.
Dale1v lol, thats the first good comment ive read for a while!
It could reduce the number of discs in a multi-disc package. For example, BluRay supports a maximum of 48mbit/s for AV data (audio and video combined). This means that a current 50GB disc can store roughly 142 minutes of content (again, at highest bitrates). That's enough for a single movie, since actual bitrates can be adjusted lower.
A 400GB disc would bump that up to roughly 1138 minutes of content at the same bitrate (no doubt Lucas will be pleased). That's enough for an entire 24-episode season of an hour-long show (assuming 45 minutes per episode, after commercials are removed).
So, being able to store an entire HD season on a single disc is certainly a big advantage.