Re: Disney approves 51GB HD DVD

Maybe a complete TV series season or something.

"My thinking exactly. Just WHAT are they going to use those 51g disks for anyway? 2 or 3 movies on one disk? Useless extras? Useless games like on the DisneyBD releases? Etc, etc... "

I'm thinking that, now Blu-ray cant say anything about storage capacity. Its probably useless but that was what Blu-ray billing.Like I read somewhere with HD DVD you can have a ferrarri for half the price. HD DVD offers the same sound the same display the same capacity and you get it for half the price. HD DVD also offers web enabling, still for haf the price of a BLU-ray.

Blu-ray currently has a 100 Gb prototype being developed by Hitachi that will simply require a firmware upgrade in order to work. You can see the Engadget article on it here:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/hitachis-100gb-blu-ray-disc-drive/

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[Post edited by bubblebathgirl on Nov 20, 2007]

Meh, I think that's a bit premature. First of all, it's still a prototype in development stages. Second of all, Sony is notorious for making things incompatible (all the different PlayStations). Third, isn't that a bit overkill? If anything, that would probably only be used for data and not for things like movies anyways.

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Blu-ray currently has a 100 Gb prototype being developed by Hitachi that will simply require a firmware upgrade in order to work

(Sigh). Will this ever end? It sounds like the "My disk is bigger then your disk game which we played in the locker room in the 7th grade." Well, maybe not bubbles...

Besides, WHO CARES???!!!! 99.9% of all the people out there will never need a 100gb disk, not to mention being able to actually afford one!!!

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Blu-ray currently has a 100 Gb prototype being developed by Hitachi

That's why bluray will be useful as a storage medium in the computer world. For hidef video 50GB is overkill. 100GB of space on a disk will be great for storing data files however. For movies, it's absolutely pointless.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Nov 20, 2007]

Ok so if Dreamworks is filing for divorce from Paramount ( I mean that is the on going rumor) then I will take this as Uncle Walt divorcing from SONY and Blu Ray. Let the trumpets sound, the war will be over alot sooner than everyone thinks.

I never got why Disney wasn't format neutral in the first place. I've never seen the House of Mouse actually cut itself off from a revenue stream.

btw...100 gigs! that's good for nothing but data storage anyway and wouldnt be a factor in this hi-def format war because at some point one-upping space limits turns silly. It won't be impressive until we get into terrabytes.

100Gb BR drives & media (for backup) are already useless when I can get a brand name external 500Gb USB drive for $99.

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[Post edited by shawnwc on Nov 21, 2007]

Shawn thats a good point. However if you need to transfer really big files (graphic designers, architects come to mind), being able to save it all on one disk and take it with you makes things a lot easier. However I doubt anyone would need anything close to 50GB for that so 100GB is again overkill.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Nov 21, 2007]