What games has and will take up all 50 GB of a Blu-ray disk

[czecherychestnut]

NJ5 said:

czecherychestnut said:

Its only slow to switch between layers, once the switch is done its as fast to read as single layer. So hypothetically, as long as the data was arranged so that layers switches were minimised (like back in the multi-cd game days) then it wouldn't be any slower than single or dual layer blu-ray to use.

 

It's not just the layer switch time, I think read speed is lower as well. For example:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/double,839-9.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/double,839-10.html

(the first one is single-layer benchmarks, the second is double-layer, using the same hardware)

 

Yeah you're right actually, though that review was done in 2004. I was thinking back when DVD drives maxed out at 16x, back then their dual layer speed was pretty much the same. Now with the current 22x drives the dual layer speed is still around 16x, so it is a little slower. I guess the extra interference from reading the second later poses tighter tolerances on jitter, hence the slower speed. Give it time though, maybe not 16 layer but 4 and 8 layer blu-ray will come out that'll read at useful speeds.