Sony has lifted the lid on its next-gen Blu-ray format, boringly dubbed the 'Archival Disc'; a high-capacity optical disc developed in collaboration with Panasonic.
Due to debut in summer 2015, Archival Disc is expected to replace Blu-ray in time, with its massive storage outstripping any other optical disc format to date.
Initially, Archival Disc will be able to house 300GB of recorded data (six times more than current 50GB Blu-rays), although future iterations of the disc will be able to accommodate 500GB and even 1TB of storage. That's plenty of room for big fat 4K movies, large files or huge games.
You can take a look at the Archival Disc logo below, and an ostensibly dull bar chart illustrating how the format's capacity will increase in the future.
Future iterations 1TB now that's a lot of storage on a disc, Archival Disc Blu-ray sound better but with that amount of storage i don't care what it's called.
Forgot to add there is no way we are seeing a digital future anytime soon, this new Archival Disc is pretty much future-proofing disc base medium.
Wow, this is insane. Hopefully Nintendo's next system is 4K and uses these disks.
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Pretty cool but this is mostly aimed at Prosumer's since blu ray should cover anything consumer facing for quite a while.
Yep, I know plenty of people that still haven't moved on to Blu-rays or even HDTVs. And then services like Netflix are much more appealing to a lot of people. I personally prefer to buy Blu-rays, but they can be rather expensive. Especially for TV seasons.
Meanwhile people still buy DVDs. Blu-ray might be the last optical disc format in my opinion. It failed to replace DVD. As for consoles, I don't expect any with this format. Either digital distribution, card-based storage or the holographic mumbo-jumbo will take over in the near future.
well if it's used for archival it is actually pretty useful, optical media is reliable for this kind of stuff because it usually can't be overwritten
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well if it's used for archival it is actually pretty useful, optical media is reliable for this kind of stuff because it usually can't be overwritten
When it comes to big data collection, I don't understand the utility of optical media. Household consumers have no need for this. Enterprises that deal with terabytes of data, have a server stack with some very large hard drives and backups.
well if it's used for archival it is actually pretty useful, optical media is reliable for this kind of stuff because it usually can't be overwritten
When it comes to big data collection, I don't understand the utility of optical media. Household consumers have no need for this. Enterprises that deal with terabytes of data, have a server stack with some very large hard drives and backups.
yeah, I was thinking more about keeping a collection of videos in HD(those things take freaking huge chunks of space) kinda like a digital family album that the kids or elders will never get to erase by accident.
that's the only good use I can see for it now there are cheap and fast and easily accessible external HDs and the not so fast but still convenient Clouds.
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well if it's used for archival it is actually pretty useful, optical media is reliable for this kind of stuff because it usually can't be overwritten
When it comes to big data collection, I don't understand the utility of optical media. Household consumers have no need for this. Enterprises that deal with terabytes of data, have a server stack with some very large hard drives and backups.
Enterprises usually use this sort of Optical media for backups incase everything goes topsy turvy. Plus I'd imagine alot of studio's that are heavy into digital imaging and video production would use these.
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