Hitachi develops 100GB Blu-Ray disc compatible with existing drives

[Hulk]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9173

Imagine a whole season (or maybe two) of HD on a single disc. Or the back-up possibilities.

[Jerry Jones]

Yeah, but how long will it take to write that much information to an optical disc?

The Blu-ray drives I've seen so far seem pretty slow.

Give me a big, fast hard disk instead.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Elie]

Jerry, with everything, they will get faster.

When I bought my first DVD burner it was the pioneer 104 and it burned at max 2x. Now I have an 18x burner.

I'm glad the development of Blu-Ray is continuing, this will put tons of pressure on HD-DVD.

Cheers,
Elie

[Hulk]

Yeah, but how long will it take to write that much information to an optical disc?

The Blu-ray drives I've seen so far seem pretty slow.

Give me a big, fast hard disk instead.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

This development is obviously a response to HD-DVD's triple layer 51GB disc.

You're forgetting that a big part of this market is the ROM section. As I said you can fit a lot of HD video on that disc. And for back-up or archiving old video projects the time to write to the disc isn't a big deal to me. Being able to take 70 or 80GB project and back the whole thing up to one disc, original files, everything seems like a great thing.

[Jerry Jones]

Not at prices like this ($999.95):

http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=338

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

this will put tons of pressure on HD-DVD. Elie

[Hulk]

Not at prices like this ($999.95):

http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=338

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Or you could avoid the overpriced Apple hardware and buy this Blu-ray burner for less than half the price of the link you provided. Try $460 instead of $1000.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106037

[Jerry Jones]

Let me know when the price for a decent Blu-ray Disc drive drops to $200.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Hulk]

Let me know when the price for a decent Blu-ray Disc drive drops to $200.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Ha! That's right around where I'll bite. Of course the media will have to be reasonably priced too.

[paulw]

Let me know when the price for a decent Blu-ray Disc drive drops to $200.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

But then there will be no Blu-ray players to play it back on on HD DVD.