Just before I start getting hate mail about being a HD-DVD fanboy, can anyone be a fanboy of a disc format?, I thought I would post about the new TeraDisc that has been demonstrated to electronics firms…
Two very important facts about the TeraDisc.
- It can store (currently) about 1TB of data. That is 950GB more than Blu-Ray
- It has been patented already so we shouldn’t have a second format war.
It is expected that the first commercial discs will start to arrive in 2009/2010…
About 2 years before the next round of consoles is to be expected which also means that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD can be expected to have a commercial lifespan of 3-4 years at the most… Who here is willing to replace their entire DVD collection only to have it obsolete again in 3 years? Yeah me neither…
Maybe we should start a website protesting against both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray… I see no reason at all to invest in either format in the near or medium term future…. Upscaled DVD’s suit me just fine thank you very much…
PC Pro: News: DVD-sized disc to store terabyte of data
Last Updated: August 30, 2007
koldFU5iON
August 30, 2007 at 17:43
wow… how long you think the terradisk is going to last?
scotty777
August 31, 2007 at 15:37
well… 1 terabyte is a lot of data… so… it’s gonna be around a shit long time! I think sony are gonna be crying hey… and i’m crying coz i’m gonna have to sell me ps3 for an xbox… but all aint that bad… I mean… i’ll sell it to the loser who thinks it’s still great… ha ha ha
LazySAGamer
August 31, 2007 at 15:42
Scotty it truly has been entertaining watching you lose faith in Sony :)…
When you do manage to get your Xbox you must join us for a few games on Live, you will never look back…
Max0991
September 1, 2007 at 14:24
No Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) kills Blu-Ray and HD-DVD,
Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology still in the research stage which would hold up to 3.9 terabytes (TB) of information. It employs a technique known as collinear holography, whereby two lasers, one red and one blue-green, are collimated in a single beam. The blue-green laser reads data encoded as laser interference fringes from a holographic layer near the top of the disc while the red laser is used as the reference beam and to read servo information from a regular CD-style aluminium layer near the bottom.
Along with Ultra High Definition Television
The new format with a resolution of 7,680 × 4,320 pixels is four times as wide and four times as high (for a total of 16 times the pixel resolution) as existing HDTV, which has a maximum resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels.