DVD is history!!

[Elie]

http://www.3dhardware.net/features/dvdead/

Elie

[DrMordrid]

JEEZZZZZ.....

For those who haven't browed to the link Elie provided, DO IT!!

And they say they can add this technology to existing drive designs cheaply? And writers are just down the road? HFS!!

This kind of technology is going to give the DVD consortium AND all the other storage device makers BIGTIME migranes, but talk about the perfect storage medium for video editing.

If it can store 140 gigs and read at 1 gigabit/second (that's 128 MEGABYTES/sec) at the 1x level of development imagine what a couple of years will do.

Also the companies url is http://www.c-3d.net/

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by DrMordrid (edited 17 February 2000).]

[paulw]

Don't worry Elie and Doc. By the time the DVD Consortium and the MPAA lawyers get thru with this technology it will be as about as usful as the exiting DVD technology for movie distribution world wide. ie crippled with regional coding, copy protection and any thing else that they can come up with.

[Elie]

True but think about the large disk capacity and what you or Hollywood can do with it.

Think encyclopedia's/Company backup and restore robotic arm units that contain at least 20 of these DVD drives with hundreds of 140gig disks. MAN that's more data than the USS Enterprise main computer memory core! (ok bad example)

Elie

[Jerry Jones]

Thanks for the post, Elie.

This is INCREDIBLY interesting.
I want it now!

[Pertti]

How much longer do we STILL have to wait ????

[Driver]

I wouldn't hold my breath for this stuff.

If you look how long it takes for new technologies to enter the market place and the usual cost of those technologies when they do, I would guess that this is at least many years away. As for the cost, i think the article is being overly optimistic about it. If that wasn't bad enough, writable media usually trails readable media by some time so don't expect to be buying one of these to do video editing in the near future. The hard drive as we know it today has many good years ahead of it.

[Jerry Jones]

I'm not holding my breath.

But when I think about it ... how
badly I **NEED** a disc that will
give me simple random access to long
broadcast quality video content: The current state of the market just isn't cutting it!

This is the one "present" I want under
my Christmas tree this year. AFFORDABLE
disc recording... and I want random
access. Doggone it... it's not too much
to ask.