Blu-ray could lose out to new format with 20,000 times the capacity in just five years
- April 4th, 2008
- 9 Comments
While we maintain that Blu-ray represents the end of the optical disk for media storage, there are signs that we might be wrong. Professor Min Gu of Swinburne University of Technology has a group of scienticians working on a new optical disk with 20,000 times the capacity of a Blu-ray disk. You could, in effect, have an entire video store, every song ever recorded, and my vast collection of exotic pornography on one disk.
The technology is only about five years off, but that’s really not a long time. This would mean optical technology would vastly outpace magnetic technology, meaning the future DVD would hold much more than an equivalent hard drive.
It’ll work through utilizing layers in the disk using new forms of nanotechnology and even quantum theory. It sounds sci-fi, but it’s real, and I can’t wait.
greatslack (Who am I?)
6 months ago
Good God, why would you want to put that much data on something that fragile? They better house that thing in bulletproof plastic!
David (Who am I?)
6 months ago
So based on this helpful graphic we can expect the new generation of optical disc to be circular and have lines.
thebonafortuna (Who am I?)
6 months ago
There’s no way this will ever be commercially viable for the average consumer, unless there is a paradigm shift in how content is packaged/sold. Think about it, even with this capacity, how much will really be loaded on one of these?
A full season of a television show? OK. An entire series, makes sense, why not. But after that, it would get awfully expensive to take advantage of all the space on one of these discs. And unless a company is willing to customize the discs they’re sending, you’re gonna end up paying for crap you don’t want if they start packaging lots of things onto these discs. Which is partly responsible for why people stopped buying CDs - they didn’t want all the crap, they just wanted to pay for the few songs they liked.
Just doesn’t make sense to me. Nobody is going to an optical “video store” to pick content, because they’ll be using virtual “video stores” in a few years.
Just doesn’t seem like a good option for commercializing media. For other things though, might work great…but I don’t see this replacing DVD or Blu-ray.
Marc M. (Who am I?)
6 months ago
Uhh HD-DVD duex? One can only hope so and they’d have the final laugh! Oh man why am I still salted about HD-DVD.
ed (Who am I?)
6 months ago
…you wanna share some of the porn….
Geno (Who am I?)
6 months ago
many companies are working on 1TB Holographic Disc , but right now the writers cost around $10000,
Brad (Who am I?)
6 months ago
WOW………….
Nice diagram… I am being sarcastic. Blu-Ray Won the hearts of the people. Nothing can beat that. C-ya in the future Toshiba, and hurry up with those computer chips. Were selling PS3 like MAD!
TheHoldSteady (Who am I?)
6 months ago
So the massive leap in capacity comes from eliminating the center hole and adding racing stripes?
Tiantong Qin
1 month ago
Does anyone notice the date? This could be an April Fools Joke, but I’m not certain.
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