Blu-ray Disc (BR)

v-boi2002 · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:55 am Post subject: Blu-ray Disc (BR)

I may have difficulty keeping up with this particular subject..

Anyways, we all know about the advantages torwards BR (kind of). To start things off, there's the unique blue-violet laser which is supposed to be better because of the its short wavelength and greater precision. In result, the data placed on the BD is allowed to be packed tightly, making room for more space.

And...right. Feedback please.

Oh, and don't mind me putting this in the entertainment. I consider FFA to be spammified, so I always try to avoid making threads there. Confused

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Itachi-kun · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

Well, you kinda helped the spammification go along spam mod, but on topic:

I'm looking forward to actually getting a blu-ray player. I kinda just wanna see the difference, but the price being so high, I've got to wait for the PS3 to come out so I can at least get a system with the player.
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Raiden · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:18 am Post subject:

does this mean that the current DVD Discs that I got will become obselete? I hope not.

I wonder how much will a Blu-ray player will cost compared to a Standard DVD player? I hope they put "more" stuff on the Discs this time since it CAn hold larger files than a DVD cd can.
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v-boi2002 · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

Itachi - Vile peer pressure, I say! Evil or Very Mad

Rai - The cheapest player there is is at $750, and that's from the Samsung BD-P1000. And then there's the Pioneer BDP-HD1 going at $1500. All for at least two pretty pennies.

The FAQ from the Blu-ray website answers the question about BD taking over DVD as well as talking about the disc costs:

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

DVDs will definitely become obsolete. DVD is already reaching the life span the regular CDs had. Actually, according to this article, PS3's 25GB Blu-ray discs are already filling up to its limit. Advantage? A lot: more hi-def cutscenes, more textures, more levels, more galores. And not to forget, 7.1 audio. Unlike the Xbox360 which relies heavily upon compress/uncompressing, the load would be lighter on the PS3 since it won't have to uncompress and calculate so much. Having more space would also help the PS3 to lessen the conflict in cache, helping the loading times faster. Sony's planning to move to 50GB BD next year.

Even though there are chips being able to read HD-DVD and BD on the same drive, the DVDs won't phase out so fast for the drive for both medias have backward-compatibility with the previous generation of optical mediums. Also, the music industry is planning to use DVDs as a medium for music, replacing our current CD albums. They already have audio DVD players planning to be sold.

However, with the two new different formats battling it out with competetion, the transition or the dying age of DVD may come faster than we'd think.. HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies cost around $60 USD right now and they have a plan of selling them as the same price as the DVDs next year. I'm not sure if HD-DVD can get any higher than dual-layer 30GB. Last August, TDK was able to develop 200GB capacity for Blu-ray.

A different method of storage that is on the arising as well is called holographic storage. Worth checking out.