400 GB Blu-Ray
Everyone that frequents the site knows that I absolutely love Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray related technology. Well today, Pioneer announced that the company has produced a 16 layer Blu-Ray disc that is capable of holding 400 GB of information. This is absolutely amazing. Imagine what can be done with this type of storage capacity! Full details of the accomplishment are expected to be released next week at the symposium that will be held in Hawaii for optical memory and storage.
Can you imagine a 400 GB game? I’m sure Kojima or Square Enix could. Based on initial reports these discs can be used in older players via a firmware update. I wonder if we’ll ever see the day that a 400 GB Blu-Ray is used for a game or a movie on a PS3. I surely hope so. With the read speeds of Blu-Ray drives increasing steadily, there could be use for this type of storage in computers for sure. Maybe the use of more storage and different arrangements of data could allow for fewer mandatory installs.
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hey sev, how long is the Sony E3 conference?
wow
wouldnt they be really expensive to produce
Initially, yes. With most technology the price will drop with time
my HDD is lower than that .. ouch
I don’t see this being used for games, that’s just too much room to fill and would take up a lot of time to develop a game that would fill it. I could see it being used as an alternative to external hard drives, especially if they make a RW of this disk.
Holy crap! That’s impressive, though not too surprising. I figured we see a 200Gb before this. Like Manbearpig says, though, I don’t think they;ll be used for games (not yet at least). Wow. I’m still impressed by this news. 400Gb.
I’m thinking Music here, I have 13,000 songs +…
400 GBs will probably take at least 50,000, finally I can backup my music on 1 disc.
WooooooW
I have 3 250 GB back up hard dives for my Music, software & pictures… I need at least 3 of those to have multiple backus.
I read on N4G that it requiered a small change to the hardware so I don’t think we’ll be seing this on the PS3 unless a new version of the BRD drive is released.
Still, it looks like we might be seeing bluray for a while if it’s capable of this kind of expansion.
Manbearpig, there is no way in hell the slow read speeds would EVER be able to replace an external HDD, unless they totally redesigned and increased the data throughput ability.
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In response Pixl1983 Says:
July 8, 2008 at 7:54 am
I read on N4G that it requiered a small change to the hardware so I don’t think we’ll be seing this on the PS3 unless a new version of the BRD drive is released.
Still, it looks like we might be seeing bluray for a while if it’s capable of this kind of expansion.
See below
According to the Japanese company: “Since the optical specifications of the objective lens…are the same as those for the existing BD discs, it is possible to maintain compatibility between the new 16-layer optical disc and the BD discs.”
So this means you can probably pop one of these big-boys into your newly purchased Blu-ray player and still access all the large space optical goodness when released.
Pioneer has promised more information on the new technology at the Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008, which sounds thrilling, on the 13 July.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pioneer-unveils-400gb-blu-ray-disc-416837 taken from there
I happily stand corrected! Kudos for the info Knoxin!
AMAZING!
Just think, I was impressed with the MGS4 to hold 50 GIG but 400! that would mean MGS4 could have a trilogy movie set making the game even longer LOL.
No probs
only downside I see is when you get them DVDs with 3movies on them there going to have a field day with this one. Get your 100 plus movies on one disc for the price of a small island. Kinda cool though I bet hideo can’t wait for this 1 week cut seen on the disc. I would still watch it
hey…
disagree…