New Xbox getting Blu-ray?

[zarx]

Vetteman94 said:

zarx said:

Vetteman94 said:
Actually Sony probably wont even put the Blu-ray that we all know of right now in their next console. For the past 2 years Sony has been developing a new blue-violet laser that will allow for single layer disc sizes to be at 1TB and higher. Read speeds will be about 10-20X that of current maximums for Blu-ray.

Possible if they want to wait another 4 years and push 4K video I guess, but considering the slow uptake of Blu-Ray and the lack of 4K content plus the added cost I doubt they will go that route next gen. Likely they will just go for quad layer Blu-Ray 1.5 with 33GB layers. There is usally a ~5 year gap between unvailing  and public adoption of new disc formats, CD unvailed 1976 publically available 1982, DVD unvailed (took a long time for the spec to be finalised was first demonstrated back in 1993 as 2 sperate formats) 1995 (first released as a product 1996 in Japan) only really became viable late 1997 when it was propally launched in the USA, Blu-Ray unvailed 2000 spec finalised 2005. Blu-violet cassed discs don't even have a official name yet.

But this isnt a new format,  its essentially Blu-ray 2.0.  BTW Blu-rays use a Blue-Violet laser, in fact the new laser and Blu-rays laser are the same size wavelength, they are just doing different things with it to increase storage.

Plus 33GB layers were announced to be implemented almost 2 years ago, yet they still have not made it to production.  Mainly due to high failure rates in the recording process.  They cannot be relied on.  And all multi-layered discs beyong 2 layers to date have stayed in concept/experimental stage.  Sure it would be nice if Sony's 8 layer or Pioneer's 16 layer discs would be put to good use. But those will never go full production.  

hmm maybe I will have to read into it more, I thought they had released the 33GB per layer discs. But I do know that BDXL 100GB discs are available http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/04/panasonics-first-rewriteable-100gb-bd-re-xl-discs-launch-later/ but they haven't been adopted by the movie industry as they are not compatable with existing players like the PS3, Blu-Violet will face the same problem and won't be adopted until the industry wants 4K movies which wont be for at least 5 years and the public probably won't want it for another 10 if ever. It's not like games will be using more than 50GB any time soon anyway (well exept maybe JRPGs with 3+ hours of pre-rendered video).