Posted by Skipai Otter on 09/22/52 11:38

"Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Skipai Otter wrote:
>> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1138392884.76670.0@demeter.uk.clara.net...
>
> I suspect you won't with optical disks.
> The next generation of DVD isn't enough to do current good sized hard
> drives and by the time recordable versions are available at throwaway
> prices hard drives will be more than a terabyte

Yeah, it's that new UHDTV standard that gets me though. Uses terabytes for
only like 3 minutes of footage :)

I think it was only the CDR that managed to keep up with an HDD at one
point, if only for a short time anyways. Hmmm, I wonder if suddenly moving
from floppy was the main cause of the HDD sizes ramping up in size so
quickly?

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Skipai

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