BluRay = already obsolete

[Football_Bat]

Are you ready for terabyte disks?

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/28/holographic-storage-future

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The link to the story is more informative: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=313

Five years from now (maybe sooner), this technology will be as cheap as DVDs are now.

 

[John]

Good thing I only paid $39 for my new DVD player.

 

[Fudgie the Whale]

Are you ready for terabyte disks?

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/28/holographic-storage-future

Question: How will this affect the quality of porn?

 

[Ace]

Are you ready for terabyte disks?

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/28/holographic-storage-future

Question: How will this affect the quality of porn?

It will be a 3D, sensorround experience. Much like making love to your inflatable doll.

 

[bigpern23]

The link to the story is more informative: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=313

Five years from now (maybe sooner), this technology will be as cheap as DVDs are now.

I don't know about that ... The unit costs $18,000 right now and the disks are $180. DVD players started at what, just over a grand and it took them almost 10 years to get down to $50? The DVDs themselves started at $22-$30. You're talking about a long way for those disks to come down to be marketable to average people.

And I'm a bit surprised not to have seen the product in action. You tell me you've got holograms, I want to see some damn holograms, not just some 60-year-old woman telling me about them.

Blu-ray isn't dead just yet.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Once most of the country gets some form of broadband, doesn't that pretty much kill the disc? I can get movies on my iPod and HD movies on my Xbox. At some point, isn't download the dominant media for this sort of thing? With flash drives to transport between non-wirelessly connected hardware the only other physical storage unit?

 

[Football_Bat]

Once most of the country gets some form of broadband, doesn't that pretty much kill the disc? I can get movies on my iPod and HD movies on my Xbox. At some point, isn't download the dominant media for this sort of thing? With flash drives to transport between non-wirelessly connected hardware the only other physical storage unit?

You must've missed this thread:
http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/55549/
The tubes are filling up.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

This is all why I'm not upgrading anything for the next decade... I came really close to getting a Blu-Ray player last year, but didn't because the discs are so expensive...

The quality is amazing, but it's not like regular DVDs are bad at all... It's not like the jump from VHS to DVD.

I have no problem keeping my regular DVD player. These days, you can just download everything off iTunes and Amazon anyway...

 

[bigpern23]

This is all why I'm not upgrading anything for the next decade... I came really close to getting a Blu-Ray player last year, but didn't because the discs are so expensive...

The quality is amazing, but it's not like regular DVDs are bad at all... It's not like the jump from VHS to DVD.

I have no problem keeping my regular DVD player. These days, you can just download everything off iTunes and Amazon anyway...

Good point, Mizzou. The leap from VHS to DVD was tremendous and when you added in special features and chapter skipping, etc., it was an easy choice to upgrade.

BluRay discs need to come down to DVD cost before it's worth it (though they will soon, I believe).

I'm going to probably buy a PS3 soon, in part because of the BluRay player, but I wouldn't buy a standalone player right now.