Sony: The Dumbest Guys in the Room

[ironman]

thismeintiel said:

So ironman, are you saying that Blu-ray can only hold 2 layers for 50 GB? Or maybe your speaking of the 4 layers that Hitachi used to get 100 GB or 6 layers to get 200GB? Ritek used 10 layers to get 250GB out of a disc. Pioneer used 16 layers to push 400GB out of one disc, and are currently working on a 1TB disc they hope to get out by 2013. 

YES! The commercial version of bluray will NEVER be over two layers. All the others that you speak of were prototypes and require a different drive to run.

So yea which of those is the layer limit? Technology is always evolving, even current tech. So before you bash someone elses research maybe you should do a little of your own. Then again I suppose you could just go on looking like an ignorant fanboy, having educated people own you.

Yes, but due to the laser config they cannot expand bluray. You need a new drive to use any of those configs. so yeah, you COULD put more than two layers on a bluray disc, but it would be impractical.  And as for the fanboy comment, seriously, why do I look like and "ignorant fanboy" ? I guess using logic and reason qualifies me as such? And as for "having educated people own me" I haven't seen any of that happen in this thread yet...but nice try, you only insult yourself by saying things like that.

Blu-ray an 8-track? So your predicting it to be successful till it is replaced? Cool, we agree then.

8 track was a dismal falure, what are you smoking. 8 tracks were never very popular, they had a short boon, and then were subsequently replaced by tapes.  

As far as digital distribution goes, it will never completely do away with physical media in the next few decades, if ever. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate DLC nor do I think it will eventually die off. I buy it, but only for small games or add-on's. And I know it's here to stay as well. But so is physical media. Look at CD's. Been around from the 80's, and still hasn't died off because of DLC.

No it won't do away with physical media, but then, I never said that it would. It will, however, greatly reduce the sales of physical media after a few years. Already DVDs and Bluray sales are diminishing due to it. Oh, and the CD comment is utter fail, Digital distribution was not around on a large scale until well after 1997