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128GB Blu-ray disc is announced
BLU-RAY DISCS are set to get considerably larger with the announcement that a 128GB format of the disc format has been finalised.
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has innovatively named its super-sized disc BDXL, and intends to ship two versions, a triple layer 100GB and a quadruple layer 128GB disc. Currently BDXL is being pitched at archival needs rather than movies.
The BDA, having fought off HD-DVD, is expected to see a pickup in sales, however increasing capacity will help Blu-ray move from being solely a consumer media format and edge towards the enterprise realm.
To that end the BDA was keen to emphasise its credentials in that field, with Victor Matsuda, BDA global promotions committee chair saying, "By using the existing Blu-ray technologies, we have created a long-term and stable solution for archiving large amounts of sensitive data, video and graphic images."
Currently Blu-ray discs come as single or dual layer items with storage capacities of 25GB and 50GB, respectively. Although the BDA has finalised the BDXL specifications, actual discs aren't likely to tip up anytime soon.
While these larger Blu-ray discs offer tremendous storage potential, most Blu-ray drives can't read discs with more than two layers, meaning users will have to fork over who knows how much for a high-end Blu-ray player. So much for the Blu-ray manufacturers' earlier claims that it would be a future proof format. µ
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But thanks for wasting money making them anyway.
Why?
The need to modernize a quad-dvd, only like 5% of movie watchers use bluray. it'll be another 10 years before bluray becomes the next dvd
Not unexpected.
This is just a last gasp by Sony and it's BDA to squeeze whatever is left to be had by idiots who jump on the bandwagon of "cutting edge" storage, despite it's history of never becoming a standard or worth the cost.
Just like tape drives and zip disks, there will be idiots who adopt it and are forced to continue to use the outdated discs and the hardware to go with it for decades after it's dead.
The rest of us are already using HDDs and solid state drives and memory.
The next wave is upon us, and it's just going to be storing data on drives with incredible terabytes of capacity, and buying it on USB drives when you need a more portable or retail purchaseable version.
Nice plan to squeeze the suckers that got on the whole BD wave, Sony.
Yay! We won the format war! Congratulations to us! Now that we have a captive audience, we'll change the format! Huzzah!
Okay, this probably won't affect most movies (I can see it being useful for, say, 3D... but who knows how long it will last this time? There was a 3D home format in the 80s, too) and will be a very niche product. Well, at least I hope, but I'm skeptical when it comes to any proprietary format that Sony produces/champions.
First 128 Gb Isn't ReWriteable. Next today, 25 Gb disc is $2, while 50 Gb disc is $10. Given Compound Fracturing of Me Thunks, about$25+ Clams per disc. 100 GB Is RW, That be ?Moore.
Next HD 1080P dosn't need much for 2 HrMoving Picture Show, especially with compression. so get ?4 movies on 100 Gb disc. Why Not Two Sided Disc. Blu Ray hasn't Convinced Anyone of Superior Movie Viewing, While 128 Gb of Data may be easier to store complete data set in, unusual to need any Huge storage at all. 128GB Is NO Better Than HDD, or Worse, once got 25$ out, thats it, Done, never More, while HDD will be useable & reuseable. 15 times larger for 3 times cost. Blu Ray BLEW IT. public Isn't That Sold on Quirkee' Names, Now Maybe Blew Rai Ultee' or vondrashek 128 Gb wonder or Stupid Peoples DicoDatRay. Not Weakee stuff. Ahso, you Buy New Player, Jo. Only $500. Could Rack 6 2TB Discs & thats heck of Lot of Space & Reuse it. WEll, where 256 Layer Disc Promised or Hologram.
Flash in Larger Size might be good. Crunch, opps. blame Ultee'. SSD Cost Is Worse. Ahso, NO Input, Just Ouput & vice Versa. There Goes Another $50 Disc.
vondrashek
128Gb isn't that much when you consider that succesful tests of 1Tb disc's was completed about 2 years or so ago.
So sleepy Sony finally suggest they will make these discs. When will they actually be available ?
Knowing Sony they will probably be stupidly over-priced. Given that a 2Tb drive is about £100 these new discs had better be cheap or it'll be another Sony FAIL
If this had happened a couple of years ago, it might have been in with a shout. But everyone backs up onto HDD now.
You can buy 2TB HDDs for 80 quid. To compete with that, they would have to flog 128GB BDXL discs for under 5 quid each - when 50GB discs are currently over twice that - *and* give away a free BDXL writer. And thats based on todays HDD prices; by the time you can actually buy this stuff, BDXL will be even more irrelevant.
Sorry, guys - back to the drawing board.
PS3 firmware update for this possible?
To think that GTAV, GT5, MGS5 etc will need multiple BD disks for their content.
Isn't that one of the reason we all got a BD player, huge capacity for ultra high quality textures, instead of having to install on HDD or swap disks every 2 hours of gameplay?