The successor to Blu Ray

[cobito]

Although BD has not been the most successful medium in history, it is still the way to achieve the highest quality in video viewing today. Even without having the pull that other formats had in the past, Sony and Panasonic are already cooking up its successor. Its name is Archival Disc and for now they have managed to get it to have 1Tb per disc.

It remains to be seen if it will focus on a specific application or if they will invent something that needs something like this since not even 4K video needs so much capacity.

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[Sylver]

Man, storing files freely in 1Tb on a DVD-like disc would be very interesting, the return of "I'll give you who-knows-how-many games on a disc" but probably at a much less affordable price than blu ray and light years away from the price of DVD or CD... Saludos

[whoololon]

Well, to tell the truth, what takes up the most space on a DVD are the audio tracks, because they are included in several languages. If it's about filling space, they'll throw in extras of whatever. Apart from that, personally, I see the same future as the LaserDisc... who remembers that. But anyway, if they want to give it a future, they'll find a market for it. Let's remember that several of the first games that came out on DVD media were limited to including audio and video files without compression or with a very low compression ratio, to justify the need for extra space that a CD didn't contain. The whole thing about discs, at this point, gives me a headache, even more so when you pick one up that you recorded and left forgotten in its box, and it turns out that when you use it, the film has come off the plastic base... "Lifetime warranty" touch yourself:mudo:.

[Yorus]

I think it has more of a focus on data preservation based on what I've read, but as whoololon says, either way it's like CDs gone wrong.

[Fassou]

It is a direct way to reduce production costs for those products that currently needed several discs for their sale, such as some console games, DVD collections...

They focus on a new format and, due to the volume of manufacturing, they are cheap enough that at first you save costs compared to several DVDs or BDs, and in the near future (when they really reach 1TB), they will have a lower cost.

The future was streaming, but the present says that we will always have room to feed our need to hoard things, like collections or in the purest Diogenes style :troll:

Salu2!

[Sylver]

@Fassou:

The future was streaming, but the present says that we will always have room to feed our need to hoard things, like collections or in the purest Diogenes style :troll:

Salu2!

Three cheers for Diogenes, who fills us with joy and satisfaction through the accumulation of junk :ugly: