Blu-Ray is obsolete.....

Marty_J

....well, not quite yet. But it could be at some point in the near future:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8021012.stm

samhale

Has no mention of speed though...

aliEnRIK

Price is a major factor. Blurays will be around a while yet

Marty_J

GE are claiming a cost of 10¢ per gigabyte for blank media upon release, so that's $50 (£35) for a 500 GB disk. Not bad really, and a lot cheaper than Blu-Ray was when it was initially released.

I have the Alien Quadrilogy, which comes on nine DVDs. You could fit the whole box set in HD on one of those disks.

It'll be a few years before it makes it into the living room though; it's intended for archival storage, so will find use in libraries and movie studios first.

aliEnRIK

Ive heard tell of scientists geting together a hard drive that will have the capacity to store every film thats ever been made in hidef quality and with a load more room left over

I dont expect it to be cheap mind

epz_2

well considering RED just demoed a 4K at bandwidth a10 meg line could stream I think the internet just killed blue ray.

4k is a bit more than 4x1080p and more than a lot of cinemas, if they can push 4096×2160 with a codec av geeks cant tell the difference from film then people will just get a subscription and use 3meg to stream 1080p.


linkage
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/red-blows-away-small-room-of-videophiles-with-4k-red-ray-footage/

Marty_J

epz wrote: »

well considering RED just demoed a 4K at bandwidth a10 meg line could stream I think the internet just killed blue ray.

I think that's some way off. ISPs find it hard to cope with BBC iPlayer traffic, never mind everyone streaming HD content.

The problem with that sort of distribution is that you put it in someone else's hands. The internet, in the UK at least, won't be in good enough shape for that sort of thing for years. Movie houses might push online streaming as a compliment to the sale of physical media, but they won't replace it as the majority of their customers don't have the means to access it.

aliEnRIK

Everything will be via download in the future. But I dont think bluray is 'dead' just yet

kebark

holographic disks have been discussed for years

epz_2

Marty_J wrote: »

I think that's some way off. ISPs find it hard to cope with BBC iPlayer traffic, never mind everyone streaming HD content.

The problem with that sort of distribution is that you put it in someone else's hands. The internet, in the UK at least, won't be in good enough shape for that sort of thing for years. Movie houses might push online streaming as a compliment to the sale of physical media, but they won't replace it as the majority of their customers don't have the means to access it.

Remember the days of 28k modems was only about 12 years ago, you can get a 50meg line for less than many could have dreamed back then.


Fact is isp's have been cheaping out recently because the 1st round of the internet got good enough, the second round is coming an this time its about real time video so they can invest or lose customers.

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Everything will be via download in the future. But I dont think bluray is 'dead' just yet

The UK is really lagging behind other developed countries when it comes to internet speeds. In South Korea, 69% of internet connections are faster than 5 Mbps. Our high speed internet would be like dial-up to someone from Japan.

Still, the government are hard at work, and in 3 years, we'll all have access to 2 Mbps internet. :j