Lol just forget it kiddies. If you're looking to "skip" the bluray format see you in 2025.

Thats a pretty random date.. why not 2024 :)

Yeah, last I checked real life looks far better than 1080p resolution

Bloody hell not another format!

im sorry it will take rdm many years to get the consumers attention like blu ray did and to get enough content like blu ray, and considering blu ray does have 400 gb discs its not impossible to get 1920 p on them if ur set can do that how many people have those kinda sets not many lol and yeah how much will u pay for this new format of disc or how much does the player cost? blu ray will be main stream by any real consumers notice this knew format

are the discs panasonic is creating, the 400 gig ones, compatible with blue rays that are in the market right now? i remember reading somewhere that they weren't but i am not sure.

A one TB (1024 gig) Bluray disk is in the works and should be hitting the shelves in about 2013. The best part? It will work with all bluray players, just like the 400 GB versions hitting stores next year:

http://www.techradar.com/news/video/1tb-blu-ray-disc-in-the-works-490214?src=rss&attr=news

and cited:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Blu-ray-dvd-movie,5502.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/28/1659255&from=rss

And looks like Bluray is being adapted faster then DVD was:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/tv/36410579.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsr

So only one question remains: Will a blu future make haters see red?

okay blu ray has Warner Brothers backing it. 'Nuff said

When will people learn? It doesn't matter one wit what companies back. It wouldn't matter if every single company on earth refused to support what was most popular. The consumer was, is, and (in capitalist economies) always will be king of the market. If people won't buy it, it won't sell, plain and simple. This is why VHS only recently died, why DVD is still more popular than Blu-Ray, and why the Wii is trouncing the 360 and PS3.

This new format may have some chance of overtaking Blu-Ray, but at this point, that's not much of an accomplishment. The odds are far greater, however, that decent video-on-demand offering DVD-quality video and DVD-quality features will easily trounce both Blu-Ray and this new format. That's a way off? Yes, yes it probably is. VOD never worked miracles for pay-per-view? Pay-per-view is far from what I am suggesting; that is a prototype at best and often lacking in features which would justify using it over just buying the DVD version. Once an accessible video-on-demand service emerges with mass market pricing and valued features which existing VOD services lack, that will be the beginning of the end for disc-based movie media.

The only place where VOD can currently kick ass in places like japan,south korea, Scandinavia: places where you get 30mbps+ lines with ease. For the rest of us limited to 1-10Mbps lines its gonna take a while before we watch anything HD at the drop of a hat.