Comments on: Beyond Blu-Ray: 2,000 movies on one disc

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:25:22 +0000

will get one and download every movie i want onto it. Much more convenient than searching though a stack of DVDs that no one watches anymore

BUT. The Xbox 360s ability to play off a flash drive does kind of make this foolish.... you can just rip to your thumbdrive and shove it in the console

By: M

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:30:14 +0000

I definitely see a LOT of POTENTIAL in this !,

if it is backwards compatible .. people will pay !

and i'm sure even the prices of this will fall 1 yr after it goes commercial..

yes, i do believe HDD storage is easy to use ...but HDD's aren't reliable enough , this is gonna be a nice way to back up the whole HDD in 1-3 discs, rather than 20-40 blu rays , or 200-400 dvdz... ,

1 disc of 1.6 tb will obviously been cheaper than 200~400 dvdz.... + easy to carry , and i'm sure the coating will be much much stronger than dvd... to protect it from scratches and will thus increase durability...

i hope it comes earlier ! ..we need it NOW !

By: rebirth

rebirth — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:48 +0000

they are probably talking abut dadta file stached on the dvd which you can then watch on your xbox or computer no stright burn it asa dvd

By: Michael in Little Rock

Michael in Little Rock — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:44:13 +0000

@compare apples to apples

Using Xvid, you can compress most movies down to CD size (700MB) and still maintain perfectly watchable quality (it's not HD, but life somehow manages to go on in the absence of HD). And at 700MB each, you could indeed fit over 2000 movies on one of these 1.6TB discs.

If this file comparison had been about music, you wouldn't expect them to give you the number of songs in uncompressed WAV format ripped straight off the CD, would you? (No, you wouldn't - you'd expect a comparison in terms of compressed MP3 or maybe even FLAC).

Well, the same goes for video - they're simply giving you the comparison in terms of one of the most common types of compressed video that people currently use when ripping DVDs (Xvid).

By: jason

jason — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:05:36 +0000

Well, just pointing out that the format thats most successful is the one used by the blue movie industry.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:37:26 +0000

Who writes these articles????
1) Many people on this thread already noticed – Math doesn't add up! A feature movie on DVD is more like 2GB you still end up with 800 of them in 1.6 TB (Sure you can squeeze a movie into 700MB using DivX or even AVC but try and watch it on big screen)

2) Just like the managed to fill up Blu Ray (25GB single layer) with HD content, they will no doubt find enough definition , dimension and sound quality to fill up 1.6TB in time

3) if you compare early DVD equipment prices (1998-2001) with todays Blu ray prices , you will find prices the same or Blu ray cheaper (inflation adjusted of course)

4) Digital download services currently don't offer the same quality as DVD (although getting close) let alone Blu Ray. So the battle is not over yet – disc manufacturers will try and outpace the digital download industry (limited by broadband bandwidth) with increasingly higher quality of content and thus bigger discs

By: TK

TK — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:16 +0000

we could get all 6 versions of Lord of the Rings, and all of the George Lucas Star Wars opus (all versions, DolbyTrue HD) on one disc!

By: SyphirX

SyphirX — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:02:52 +0000

"The math just doesn’t add up in this article. A standard DVD movie (not including all the extra features) is approx. 5GB. 1.6TB = 1600GB. That’s roughly 320 movies of standard DVD quality (far fewer in HD quality).

2000 movies on one of these discs would equate to a movie size of 800MB. Movies of this size would look nice on a PSP, iPhone, or other portable video devices."

I'm not sure if you know what you're talking about.
I keep ~700mb back-ups of some of my DVDs on my PC. Sure, it's not the original quality, but it's close. So close it's hard to tell.

Get a 700mb DVD copy and see the quality, it's not bad.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:03:10 +0000

My two cents on this topic is: imagine a world where a videogame developer can make a game as big as they want, without having to worry about being able to fit the entire game on one disc. We could have an Elder Scrolls game that features all 8 provinces of Tamriel, and possibly even the other continents of the planet. Or a Fallout game that would allow you to travel the entire country in the depth and detail of the DC area in Fallout 3. Or a Star Wars game that allows free roam of the entire Republic/Empire (depending on when the game is set). Or, maybe even a Rock Band disc that has ALL the songs from Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and all the DLC.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:03:29 +0000

AxS*: It's called iDvd. Or any of 800 other programs for that matter.