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SvennoJ on 24 October 2014
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BraLoD said:
Chris Hu said:
BraLoD said:
I don't know, but it's time to start trying new stuff!

When will you come HVD?

Still too expensive will probably show up eventually but it looks like the Holographic Versatile Card will never see the market. 


I really hope it does comes to us.

BD is already getting space problems to handle this gen games and I heard already that we are to see games coming in 2 or even 3 of them.

I know BD is still evolving and will handle this gen just ok, but we will need a new media in the next one probably, and I think the HVD may be the one.

It seems so cool and a really smart way to do the storage, and Blu-ray was also expensive years ago, maybe with some more good 5-6 years the HVD can be becoming a reality to us, I do really hope so.

I already read about the Archival Disk (I think it's named this way), that Sony and some other company were working at was already in use this year but I don't think I undertood it very well and I don't know if it's applicable to gaming, do you know about it?

Archival disks are really just that, for long term archiving stuff. It's not meant for consumers and probably comes with expensive readers.

HVD might be obsolete already when it comes out
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159245-new-optical-laser-can-increase-dvd-storage-up-to-one-petabyte
1000 terra bytes on 1 dvd... Probably a theoretical limit, if only 1 to 10% of that can be realized it's still worth it.

NHK already has 8K 120fps image sensors and Japan is gearing up for 8K broadcasts, a new storage format will be needed some time.
12 bit 8K 120 fps video is 58.6 TB per hour uncompressed. There's also the challenge of reading and transmitting 133 Gbps of data.