| walsufnir said: Another question: do you think bluray will have a successor? In my opinion bluray will be the last iteration of an optical disc format? |
HVD is still in development although it's not going well. Yet 4K movies are coming sooner or later so it's very possible.
There is only 1 4K movie out atm that I know of, Timescapes. The 12bit 4K version comes on a HDD, 120gb file for a 52 minute documentary. That's 315mbps, 6x the max transfer rate of a blu-ray movie. Now since I have trouble streaming 5mbps consistently atm I think another disc format would be useful. It will be a while before 500mbps internet will be standard worldwide.
It could be that hvd will be passed for ssd cards (The new SDXC card format specification has already reached the 2TB mark) but pressing disks is always cheaper then manufacturing ssd cards I would think. 8 layer blu-ray disks at 200gb should be sufficient for 4K movies as well. Though a 4tb hvd disk would solve the need for multiple disks for a long time, Lotr extended edition in 4K with all extras on 1 disk :)
