Pioneer's 400gb blu-ray disc

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chemteam

Dec 2, 2008 - CST 11:41 PM

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Thought this was an interesting read. I think this will pretty much guarantee that blu-ray will be around in some form or fashion for sometime to come. You can find the article here:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/935/935074p1.html

[Post edited by chemteam on Dec 2, 2008 - CST 11:45 PM]

John J. Puccio

Dec 3, 2008 - CST 12:34 AM

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We keep reading abou these super-huge storage mediums, but the probability is that they will only be used for archival storage, not for releasing movies on Blu-ray. Sure, a studio could issue all of the Bond movies on one disc. But how would the studio make any money off it unless they charged something like the same price of all twenty-odd Bonds separately: Even at, say a low $400, how many of these super Bond discs would they probably sell?

It's like the record companies today. They sell CDs with a capacity for about eighty minutes of content. But how many CDs have anything approaching eighty minutes on them? Most have far less than an hour. Many have little over half an hour.

I'd say the 400 gb BD is a good idea for backing up a hard disc, if you could write to them, but overkill for content sales. It's great marketing PR, though.

John

Mike37

Dec 3, 2008 - CST 1:04 AM

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Video games John.... Video games...

John J. Puccio

Dec 3, 2008 - CST 1:24 AM

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Mike,

Can you even imagine how much a company would have to pay a programming staff to create a game immense enough and graphically detailed enough to fill up a 400-gig disc? I know it sounds great from a gamer's perspective, but for a game company it probably wouldn't be cost effective.

John