Three HD Layers Today, Ten Tomorrow? Options

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Three HD Layers Today, Ten Tomorrow? Posted by XanTium | January 12 22:49 EST

From dailytech.com: [QUOTE] Ritek is disclosing behind closed doors at CES its own achievements in multi-layer HD optical media. Ritek claims to not only have been able to produce a three-layer and four-layer HD optical discs, but to have successfully designed HD media with a full 10 layers. The company says that its multi-layer process can be applied to both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats. At base specifications, 10 layers on an HD DVD would yield 150GB, assuming 15GB per layer. For Blu-ray, the total over 10 layers jumps to 250GB, assuming the base 25GB per layer. While those numbers do sound impressive, Ritek officials point out that the real barrier to this advancement is the lack of reader and writer laser diode technology to support the additional eight layers above the current standard. [/QUOTE] Full Story: dailytech.com

[sicknasty413]

I heard about this.

Xantium, you wanna tell me why I would want 250gb on a disc?

Is it really necessary? I'm hoping a 250gb disc will be cheaper then a 250gb HDD...But I guess you pay for it being slightly more versatile...but seriously, the standard 25gb blue-ray discs are like $20 from newegg...

Hmm..I guess it would be pretty cool..I guess I can think of some uses. idk.

Sounds interesting though.

[RiPpN-N-TrIppN]

i could think of alot of reasons for having tha much space on a disc
i dont think u need that much for gaming but for buisness this is great
doing backups using just the one disc is awsome

[dhrandy1]

I could back up all my computers, music, movies and pictures on one disc. Man that would save a lot of space.

[gaming fanboy]

I could back up all my computers, music, movies and pictures on one disc. Man that would save a lot of space.

how big is your wallet?!?

[dark0]

250gb discs would be pretty sweet.

[Murc]

wow....I would be pissed if I backed up my pc on it, and dropped it and it got a scratch and was unreadable...

I dont see a need for this.

If you need something portable that can hold alot...thats not exactly a device that would be hard to find...theres a thousand devices that already fill that role.

[dark0]

uhhh make 2 copies and put them both in different places?

If you're so paranoid about it buy yourself some heavy duty padded cd cases and a small safe.

[0794]

I could back up all my computers, music, movies and pictures on one disc. Man that would save a lot of space.

you must not have much data to backup to only one disc.


I, too, do not really see a need for this much space on a medium that has such poor access times and can so easily be damaged. Sure, maybe for backup purposes if you made 2 copies and put 1 in a safe deposit box or something. Maybe, I could see a movie distribution kiosk where you could choose several movies to put onto one of these discs.

I would rather use portable hard drives or flash memory for data storage and technology continues to force more data into smaller and smaller designs in those areas...

[Madskilz182]

Well, I see one very damned good reason to have one hd dvd with 10 layers. I could buy an entire season of a show in HD and only have to have one disc instead of a 5 or 6 dvd package.

This post has been edited by Madskilz182: Jan 13 2007, 04:06 PM

[0794]

Well, I see one very damned good reason to have one hd dvd with 10 layers. I could buy an entire season of a show in HD and only have to have one disc instead of a 5 or 6 dvd package.

excellent point - one very valid reason for such large capacity...

[grim_d]

THIS is why were gonna need these

but even these those discs are nowhere near enough.

screw HD-DVD and blu-ray, HVD FTW that's why i think theyl fail, like laser discs and what not.

[jabroniekilla]

wouldnt it take like 100 hours to burn 250 gigs on a disc?

[TheIrishLad]

wouldnt it take like 100 hours to burn 250 gigs on a disc?

Saying as they don't have the technology for the read/writer diodes I think it might be something like...infinity?

[Tiuk]

People who are questioning why we need 250 GB on a single disc..

We now have 1 TB hard drives. How else are you going to backup something that large?

Storage capacities are going to continue to rise, in all mediums. I don't get why people even question it anymore. I remember when the first gigabyte hard drives came out. Who in the world would ever need that much space? I had like a 40 mb hard drive at the time (next upgrade was to 500 mb, huge!).

Just a bit of perspective.