Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015 289
SmartAboutThings writes "If you think optical discs are dead and are a sign of the past, maybe you need to take this into consideration – Sony and Panasonic have just announced in Tokyo that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of developing the next-generation optical discs that are said to have a recording capacity of at least 300GB. The two companies have even set a deadline for this ambitious project: before the end of 2015."
who cares (Score:2, Funny)
by then everything will be so locked down the only thing able to take up 300gb space will be all the fucking laws we need to follow to be on the internet
Re:Check out my optical dick (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DVD Life Time 2-5 years (Score:3, Funny)
The OP obviously didn't buy DVDs with Taiyo Yuden dye - or is simply LYING.
Well since I have no idea who "Taiyo Yuden Dye" is (I don't know many welshmen) and I have certainly never bought any DVDs with him you have clearly caught me out and I must be lying. In my own defence I do think that including a link to the US national archives where they made this claim was a particularly clever ruse but I'm sure they based this number on a few DVDs they had lying around the office until someone sat on one of them as their lifetime estimate and not on rigorous scientific tests.
I'm particularly appreciative of the data you provide on not just thousands, but THOUSANDS, of DVDs. It must have been a lot of work to painstakingly check the billions, sorry BILLIONS, of bytes of data they contained for errors so you really should not belittle your effort by calling it rubbish, it's a valuable addition to the scientific performance studies of DVDs.
Anecdotal evidence like this is extremely important. Only the other day my son was throwing a ball in the garden while standing under a tree and the ball did not come down. He searched all over for it but it clearly had not come down as required by the laws of gravity. I was all set to write a paper of the partial non-existence of gravity under trees but there was a storm that night and the following day I found the ball while mowing the lawn so clearly he had missed it in the fading light and long grass the day before. Still I believe that story clearly illustrates just how import anecdotal evidence could be.