MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted February 4, 2005 From CNet Six companies, including Fuji Photo and CMC Magnentics, have formed a consortium to promote HVD technology, which will let consumers conceivably put a terabyte (1TB) of data onto a single optical disc. A TB-size disc would certainly compress movie collections. The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD. Knowing this, people would be stupid to throw down $1000 for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD equipment later this year. Those formats will bomb if this is released in even its stripped down (200 GB) form. FYI 1 Terabyte (TB) = 1,024 Gigabytes (GB) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest sek69 Report post Posted February 4, 2005 To borrow a phrase from my favorite episode of the Brak Show: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN! I just hope this doesn't get squished by bigger companies who don't want the next gen DVD systems they've sunk money into getting cut off at the legs. I sense Sony pulling a HHH and either doing something to prevent this from seeing the light of day or magically coming up with their own version in a few months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eclipse 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2005 WOW, that is gonna be the DREAM TOOL for piracy. 1TB of storage is INSANE. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ced 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2005 (Looks at his wall of DVDs and imagines burning that all onto a single HVD) DAMN... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Secret Agent 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2005 No thanks. The price of only a dual layer/double layer DVD is averaging at 10 dollars a disc. Thats only 8.5gb. Now imagine how much THIS would cost for a single disc...and It had better be re-writable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2005 No thanks. The price of only a dual layer/double layer DVD is averaging at 10 dollars a disc. Thats only 8.5gb. Now imagine how much THIS would cost for a single disc...and It had better be re-writable. As long as the disc was rewritable, it would be a bargain for $100. I dont think you can buy 200 DVD-RWs for less than that (I just paid $10 for 5). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jobber of the Week 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2005 Knowing this, people would be stupid to throw down $1000 for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD equipment later this year. Not if it costs $5000 to buy a burner for this format. And just think about how much blanks will cost. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeneMean 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2005 That's a shit ton of pr0n. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
