1TB Blu-Ray - Why?

[StarsFan4Life]

Anyone heard about this thing? What the heck can we do with a 1TB blu-ray movie disc? I'm sure this is strictly for media storage for future machines, or is it?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/28/call_recall_optical_drive/

Would the PS3 (with a firmware upgrade) be able to read these discs?

 

[tel0004]

The important question is why not?

I'm sure when they were developing CDR's, somebody said, who needs 650mb of info? Same with DVD's.

This will have a niche market, and in a few years when prices get cheaper they could be as common as having a DVD burner today.

 

[AndonSage]

It says it's backwards compatible with Blu-ray, but I think they mean the new drives would be able to work with Blu-ray.

 

[StarsFan4Life]

So not PS3? The reason I ask is can you imagine 1tb worth of a game on one disc?

 

[gwu168]

So not PS3? The reason I ask is can you imagine 1tb worth of a game on one disc?

Yeah, 1TB of uncompressed redundant stuff that would otherwise fit nicely on a couple gigabytes with good compression and structure.

 

[D3v1an7]

why? because the future is always more storage and higher density. The first applications for this technology won't be for mainstream commercial use. My guess is this is going to provide and excellent backup medium for small to medium size businesses for the next couple of years before the format is heavily adopted by the mainstream.

If the this technology becomes more cost effective than the processors required to decompress standard high def video, then I can see this become the de facto standard to save money in the hardware since the added processing power for decompression would no longer be required.

 

[kuyaglen]

When do the writable drives and media come out? I think I should backup my "linux isos".