Blu-ray has a "sleeper" advantage over DVD that anyone would noticed that have played games on both 360 and PS3 and it's not the fact Blu-ray hold more storage.
It's the fact Blu-ray is a lot more quiet than running your DVD at warp speed on the Xbox360.
I don't mind installing a game running DVDx12 like PC but I don't care for it running the whole time I'm playing the game at warp speed.
| DavidF said: Wii uses a proprietary disk format derived from the DVD... just not to pay fees to the DVD format owners. For this reason Nintendo will probably never use blu-ray but have a home-made "clone" of it made for them by Matsushita. |
Just to clear up any confusion, GC and Wii discs are physically identical to DVDs. The only difference is the layout of the bits on the disc. If there was any phsyical difference, the LG drives which can dump the discs would not be able to.
The 8 layer is under development, and has been for 2-3 years. It was set to hit the market within 2008, so we'll hear more shortly I guess.
The biggest available optic storage now would be the 4 layer BluRay, I think it came out last year. That's still 100 GB's, almost on par with a standard laptop HDD.
Disc formats time is running out. I think Toshiba is looking at 100 gb flash devices the size of a Mini disc. No disc spinning and alot less loading times as well as 4 times the size of Blu Ray. They maybe looking to use these as there next attack against Bluray.
Imagine how much easier to use and store they would be. Once mass produced they would be cheap and could fit entire seasons of tv series content in HD.
| selnor said: Disc formats time is running out. I think Toshiba is looking at 100 gb flash devices the size of a Mini disc. No disc spinning and alot less loading times as well as 4 times the size of Blu Ray. They maybe looking to use these as there next attack against Bluray. Imagine how much easier to use and store they would be. Once mass produced they would be cheap and could fit entire seasons of tv series content in HD. |
Which would be cheaper especially in a few years a 100GB flash drive or one Blu-ray disc? Unless flash drives become dirt cheap I doubt they will replace a plastic disc.
Smidlee said:
Which would be cheaper especially in a few years a 100GB flash drive or one Blu-ray disc? Unless flash drives become dirt cheap I doubt they will replace a plastic disc. |
Bingo.
Disc-based media isn't favored due seeking times or size as it fails hard at both. It's favored as it's cheap to mass produce.
As I said it's time is running out. once upon a time discs were new and not as cheap as now. The same with HD TV's. It's only a matter of time. Downloading is already effecting Blu rays reach.
| Summaro400ex said: Well Nintendo has always done their own thing so i doubt they will... I remember right before ps3 launched sony said ps4 wouldnt have any optical media so that means sony wont. The only possibility left would be xbox. I think the next xbox could possibly use blu ray but most games will be downloads |
coolestguyever said:
do you have a source? |
It is theoretically possible, but I don't think that it has been acheived yet
From what I understand they have only made single layer Blu Rays at the moment. I read somewhere that more layers with Blu Ray cause more cost.
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