Posted by Joe Moore on 04/21/06 14:36

"asj" <kalim1998@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Air Raid wrote:
>> meh. so what. I guess Microsoft will use the 200 GB Blu-ray for the
>> NEXT Xbox after Xbox 360 (not as an add-on to 360).
>>
>> Sony on the otherhand, by 2012-2013 or so, for PS4, will probably use
>> one of the HVD
>> "Holographic Versatile Disc" standards that have been in development
>> for a number of years. The various emerging HVD standards, I think, use
>> a red plus a blue-green laser instead of the blue laser that HD-DVD and
>> Blu-Ray use.
>>
>> should allow TeraByte(s) of storage space.
>
>
>whoaaaa!!!! hold on there! let's not get TOO ahead of ourselves.....
>
>it will be quite a few years before those other formats are
>commercially viable....
>
>ps. i told my dad of the 100-200 GB blu-ray disc and he's already
>asking where to buy one - had to tell him to wait until players come
>out this summer! i really think one of the selling points of blu-ray
>will be the awesome storage available in the discs ;-)

Only to folks who don't understand that storage greater than what is
needed to hold an HD movie is wasted in an _HD_movie_PLAYER_.

If this is the level of sophistication of Sony's customers, I see
why Sony has so little respect for them. They probably buy books
based on the number of blank pages after the story.


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