| DarkD said: I just thought I would add on one more thing. Blue-ray discs are actually designed to be really strong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jEbZt6AIQ This is a stress test of the Blue-ray disc to see how much it can tolerate. The amount of work you need to do to kill the disc is insane. That argument isn't really valid. Blue-ray would be nice for what that other guy said before, if you wanna watch an entire season of a show without getting up to change dvd's 5 times. |
Aye but I dont have any trouble with normal factory coated DVD either. The problem is writable discs. Those do not have the same coating nor can they because they still need to be burned whereas factory produced discs can be pressed then coated. In other words, this doesnt really help the PC user at all. The discs may have 5x more space but they will be equally (5x) as vulnerable.
As far as the 11gig game goes... my guess would be that a lot of useless stuff is on the disc. I know that when I program redundancies sometimes slip through not because I dont know about them, but becuase there really isnt any reason to remove them or perhaps they decided not to compress FMV and audio as much. Uncompressed (or high bitrate) video and audio would take up huge amounts of space. Its just a guess however so I really dont have any idea why that game is 11gig. But again, if Oblivion can do it in 4-5gig, no other game I can think of should be even close unless theyre an MMO... "should" being the operative word here.
