Pioneer Has 400GB Blu-ray Disc

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Pioneer has been showing off its 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray disc any chance it gets so it is no surprise that it showed up at the IT Month Fair in Taipei. Supposedly these discs will be compatible with current BD readers and will be in mass production by 2010.

Currently, the 400GB disc is slated to hit mass production sometime between now and 2010, while rewritable versions won't hit until 2010 to 2012. Not like it really matters though -- a 1TB disc is on track for 2013, and you know you'll be waiting for the latest and greatest.
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This is like dangling a carrot in front of a horse. It's right in front of us but we can't get it, yet. :p

Impressive technology, if it is reliable.
 
Now Steve Can put some of his pron collection on disc.:D
 
maybe they should start adding 2-3 discs to play at the same time. I can only imagine the seek time for these babys
 
I don't see these being horribly useful when the first come out, but when they get down to .50 $ a disk, they'll be really helpful.
 
Obi_Kwiet said:
I don't see these being horribly useful when the first come out, but when they get down to .50 $ a disk, they'll be really helpful.
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I think it has potential. Lots of multi-disk series could benefit from them. Television episodes, all six Star Wars movies, all the Star Trek movies, maybe a Mel Brooks compilation..
 
They need to go quicker in the format wars, especially against the cost of hard drives.

I'm excited for the 1tb disks, that means I will only need like 54 of them or so to backup! :D
 
i would just like the 50gb blank BD to get to a reasonable price (<$5/ea)
 
Yeah even when they do come out the price will probably be outrageous >$40 a disc.
 
Hopefully they focus on reliability enough so we could have another option for some seriously long term storage!! :)
 
By the time this thing actually hits the market and becomes affordable, then next "big thing" will be right around the corner. Or so seems to be the endless cycle of storage media.
 
Term-X said:
By the time this thing actually hits the market and becomes affordable, then next "big thing" will be right around the corner. Or so seems to be the endless cycle of storage media.
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Same thing I was thinking. Awesome technology but the cycle will repeat.
 
Ahh i remember when zip100, no I mean zip250, no ummm super floppy...........ehhhhh cd-r(s) where the new thing
 
Even currently I'm facing trouble burning certain dual layer DVD, lol.

Any backup on DVD still goes to a normal 4Gig DVD, which the quality test (using nero) is much better than a DL DVD, where the 2nd Layer often has lots of those error thing reported.
 
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