| Dodece said: Hell there are formats in formative development that can hold exabytes of information. With technologies like plasmonics, and organic discs constructed with microbes on the horizon storage capacity seems near limitless. That said we are fast approaching a point where storage capacity will essentially outstrip storage needs entirely. However once you enter the realm of terabytes and beyond you have reached the point where disc formats will disappear entirely. You will simply buy one disc and that will store your accumulated data for the span of your life. Unless your looking to store something like your entire genome, or predict the weather systems of the entire planet. I would be cautious about this format however. The 360 drive is only $180. I have even seen a standalone for $190 granted a original machine however it shows the prices have room to go down dramatically. Well at the very least on the HD-DVD side of things. Curious what effect this might have on the Blu Ray players though. I think HD can get competitive fast enough. I am not so sure about the Blu Ray players though. |
When HD were approaching 20 MB I said this. I also said there was no way to fill all of that. Than I saw 40 MB HDs and said "Who the hell needs that?" Than I got used to Hd's being around the 100 MB mark. When Hard Drives hit 650 MBs I was like "Woaahhh this is willl take me years to fill and I never will have to delete again. When HD's hit a gig I was like this more than any single person will ever need. When they hit 8 gigs I was kind of used to rapidly expanding HDs but I was still thinking no one would ever need more than 20.
When 120 gigs came out I got one right after their intro thinking it will take me forever to fill but I was wrong because no I have managed to fill 1 terrabyte worth of HDs just doing video projects and wishing I had more space.
With this on the way you may want to rethink your storage thoughts
Super Hi-Vision's main specifications:
Resolution: 7,680 × 4,320 pixels (16:9) (approximately 33 megapixels)
Frame rate: 60 frame/s.
Audio: 22.2 channels
Bandwidth: 21 GHz frequency band
600 MHz, 500~6600 Mbit/s bandwidth
2006 demo was published in a Broadcast Engineering e-newsletter.[2] In November 2005 NHK demonstrated a live relay of Super Hi-Vision (UHDV) program over a distance of 260 km by a fiber optic network. Using dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM), 24 gigabit speed was achieved with a total of 16 different wavelength signals.
That is roughly 3 GBs or 10.8 terrabytes per 2 hour movie that was for a relay or broadcasting. For the actual film itself
In test, an 18-minute UHDV video gobbled up 3.5 terabytes of storage (equivalent to about 750 DVD's)
We will always find a way to fill space even if it is some brain dead AOL'er downloanding pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
"Me too"
