Blu-ray technology.

Good thing I spent all that money on a decent DVD player, not to mention all those movies I purchased.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sci_tech/story_26575.asp

Wow, 2 hours of recordable HD storage.

Save your pennies early-adopters, and be prepared to be gouged.

We\'ll see I guess.  Someone else like Pioneer may be working on their own improvement over DVD.

Prepare to replace all your DVDs with Blu-Ray high def transfers.  The MPAA would love this.  The only good thing is that it might eventually force the studios to do new transfers to replace all the crappy non-anamorphic transfers borrowed from ancient VHS releases.  Maybe they\'ll get it right finally and stop using edge enhancement.  It will take years for this or any other DVD replacement standard to be adopted.  I wouldn\'t be worried about money spent on a good DVD player.

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Yeah, people have to get Hi Def monitors first.  Actually the penetration of HD has far exceeded that of color television so we are further on our way, but it will take a while.

TVs have to get sub 1000 before they become common place.  Although you can get damn nice monitors now for less than 2 grand.  That\'s what it cost 5 years ago for a crappy SD big screen.

PS3\'s new storage media anyone? :eyemouth:

Originally posted by fastson
PS3\'s new storage media anyone? :eyemouth:

well Sony is one of the Big 4 or 5 that are developing it

From the way our technology in storage media is exponentially improving, I\'ve read that by 2015 we\'re going to have optical media the size of a CD that will have terabytes of storage.  
The MPAA/Copywrighters are NOT happy about that though - One pirated MP3 disk of 2 terabytes could contain about a year\'s worth of music, for a cost of around $20 bucks!!  A simmilar disk could contain virtually every book every written, in e-book form, again $20 bucks!

At the research center where my dad works, one of the groups is working on crystal storage as a medium.  Right now it\'s too slow to be practical, but with a lazer and quartz, you can store thousands of petabytes, in a 1x1 cm piece of quartz (they write basically to each molecule in a lattice).  Eventually, though they\'ll reach a level of size/quality, that you can decide to heavily invest in.  There comes a point at which more quality isn\'t needed, because you won\'t notice it.