Was Blu Ray a mistake?

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torfred said:

kber81 said:

@ FishyJoe

There won't be any superior technology to BD anytime soon. It's not that easy you know. You can't just say lets make a 1 TB optical disc and start to develop. More important Hollywood decided what is the future data carrier. You can hate Sony but it will change nothing. BD is an obvious winner. Even with HDDVD/BD players on the market still most movies will be on BD exclusively. In two years everyone will own HDTV and BD player.

There is already one in development that bdbdbd mentioned HVD it will contain up to a max of 3.9 TB of space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

Although its probably at least a decade before we can use this if it kicks off.

 TDK has a 200gb BD-R in working prototype.

I'd say the media format will probibally be passed in 4-5 years, but I doubt BluRay will go anywhere because well, using h.264, you can run full 1080p with basically zero loss, at around 100megs/minute. That gives you 500 minutes of ultra high quality 1080p video. If your willing to drop your quality down to extended play DVD compression ammounts, you could fit around 20-30hours of HD content on a BluRay disc.