The blue period of lasers
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| Posted by | Robin van Lieshout |
| Posted on | 27/07/02 20:18 |
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Store!Apart from that you can store 27 Gigabytes of data on a single disc. This is of course excellent for archiving purposes. Unfortunately there's not much known about the durability of a BD, so it remains to be seen if the Blu-Ray Discs have enough quality for archiving purposes that need to be 100% secure (medical data, military documents etcetera).
It also seems that Blu-Ray comes right on time. The current harddisks you can buy are already well over 100 Gigabytes each. With the aid of a Blu-Ray writer you would need about 4 BD's to backup that amount of data, but with DVD you would need 22 DVD's!
Further, think of the possibillities for games. Using multimedia in games costs enormous amounts of data. There are already games that require 7 CD's. Of course you can put this on a single DVD, but if this trend follows over the years and the software companies decide that bigger is better, the Blu-Ray technology may come in handy.
36 Megabits per second throughput is also more than enough for almost any personal little webserver. It could be pretty cool that you could run your website by using a pc with a Blu-Ray recorder in it, and that's it. You have 27 Gigabytes of rewritable webspace at your fingertips. Only needing a little harddisk for the operating system, drivers and you're up and running. The only problem could be that if you keep filling the disc at full speed, it's full in about 2,5 hours
The nine companies involved will all develop products that take full advantage of Blu-ray Disc's large capacity and high-speed data transfer rate.
They are also thinking about improving Blu-Ray already. For instance by developing a larger capacity, such as over 30GB on a single sided single layer disc and over 50GB on a single sided double layer disc and finding ways to enhance the throughput , making 2x Blu-Ray recorders (giving a throughput of 72 mbits per second).
Some companies jump right on the storage-wagon and promise even 120 Gigabytes per disc in the year 2007 (http://www.plasmon.com/udo)
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Posted by nEXusJ on Wednesday 31 July 2002 03:33
Cool post, Mr. Belvedere. 
Great info on the BD. So, when's the expo on the 130GB CD3?
Later,
nEXusJ
Great info on the BD. So, when's the expo on the 130GB CD3?
Later,
nEXusJ
Posted by dansmug on Thursday 01 August 2002 22:30
I thought there were so little reactions, I felt compassion with Mr. Belvedere. So once again: nice article.
Ok. Great article... but... Why are they using MPEG2? We live in a world where MPEG4 has taken over(divx). All they need to do is creat a MPEG4 for super high resolutions(1080p).
Same with audio. By that time we will have DD10.2 or something like it. Audio should be encoded in WMA8(divx audio) or MP3PRO.
Same with audio. By that time we will have DD10.2 or something like it. Audio should be encoded in WMA8(divx audio) or MP3PRO.
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