300gb DVD

[beefcake]

Look at where technology is going. What lies in the future I wonder.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-challenge-dvd

[Lmg2701]

Believe it when i see it......not putting it out of reach, just hard to imagine.

[blm]

That is not hard to imagine at all...it's all 1's and 0's...;)

[Stonecold54]

technology is the easy part for our culture...child raising now on the other hand is something that needs to be focused on.

[Lmg2701]

That is not hard to imagine at all...it's all 1's and 0's...;)

Gotta love that binary huh.....:D

[Puma]

Here comes the rant, be prepared.

Movie makers are desperate to get us to buy their product again. Because of the encyrption on DVD was broken (which, BTW, was totally their fault, I will elaborate in a second) they NEED to get us off that medium. They are going to try to get us interested in something else so that they can start to "phase out" DVDs.

I have a higher end HD projection screen, and a high end HD decoder box (DVI/HDMI outputs, etc), and let me be the first to tell you; HD is better. Is it that much better? No, it really isn't. When people come over they always want to see what HD looks like. They kind of stare at it blankly and then say, "Yeah, it does look clearer". They are right, its better, but NOT a world of difference. I think that most people are really underwhelmed by the increase in quality from digital TV (think DSS) to HDTV. Again, I will NOT say its not noticible; it is. But its not that much better! A widescreen DVD fed through component hookups into a modern HD tv looks amazing (especially if you have good signal upconverters; which I don't). Its almost impossible to tell a DVD from HD TV. If you know what your looking for; yes you can, otherwise most people would never notice.

So why this push to HD-DVD? Well, because the people who developed DVD were so goddamn greedy that they decided that "hard" encryption was going to slow down their foreign market too much (its illegal to export hard encryption decoding devices, ot at least it was) and they thought that we were stupid enough to never figure out that someone with a abacus could break the encyrption on a DVD (this is a total overstatement, but 40 bit is considered VERY weak). So they settled on the lesser standard and now we have the problems of today (movies being released before they hit the theaters; me having about 500 movies on burned DVD's, etc).

Now for the part that REALLY pisses me off. Ok, so you had to settle on the encryption, now its broken, get on with your life. But the movie studios realized something else when they were developing their first "digital" standard for realease. Once you have a DVD, you NEVER have to buy that move again. DVD has a VERY long shelf life (50+ years for commercial) and if you can rip it to your HDD (which they did NOT want you to be able to do), forever. So now, you buy a movie once and never buy it again. This is a very scary concept because most movie sales are of classic or first run films (how many people have Star Wars, or Gone with the Wind, or The Matix on DVD?). Once you buy this, they are done, they will NEVER sell you another copy of that movie again.

This poses a problem for them; so what do they do? Much like CD's, they design DVDs to be very easily damaged. Let me tell you, I work in techonology, and the method for "unbreakable/unscratchable" DVD's has been around for about 30 years. Its called a CADDY. That way your disks would never be exposed except inside of the machine. They, of course, chose not to do this; if you damage the disk you buy it again!

Of course, we are not that stupid, so now lots of people rip DVD's to their media players (Xbox!) and then put the original copy away. This is a wonderful way to make sure you collection is preseved forever! However, movie companies do NOT want you do do this! You will never destroy the disks, never lose them, never step on them, no dogs eating them; oh my God, you will never buy it again!

So, now they are releasing a new format that we are supposed to be all excited about. Is the quality going to be better? Yup, I am sure it will. Will the encryption be better? Probably, so no more burning the disks or making backups to HDD. Besides, they are making the media hold so much data that even if you can rip it; its going to be 10-15 years before people have multi-terabyte drives in their computers able to hold lots of these movies. And compressing them? Ha! Compressing a regular DVD takes hours of processor time on a fast computer. Multiply that by a factor of about 100 and now you have weeks to compress one of these monsters!

Its the only way to get back the "control" that they so despertly need. Let me tell you, if this technology catchs on, you are going to see regular DVD's go away in VERY short order! They want you to have to rebuy everything in HD format, and to have to maintain these terribly fragile media for as short a time as possible until you destroy it and have to buy it again.


So, in case you didn't notice, I am really not for HD DVD. For computers it will be great (100s of gigs on a disk!) but for movies its just a ploy by the media world to try to get us back in their pockets.

:)

Puma

Who really needs to stop watching conspiricy movies! ;)

[blm]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwn!

[Lmg2701]

Everything will just keep getting smaller.....More storage space on a smaller piece of hardware and on and on and on.....


It's a matter of time before things become interactive......

Here's my imagination running wild:

Football in 2050......
I'll be able to watch it from my home, but I'll be able to see the game from field via a camera in each players helmet or some device that allows me to basically be "in the game"

Hey, it could happen.....

[crossconnect]

wow!300gig on a small portable disk?you wont need a hard drive anymore!i wonder how expensive the hardware will be?you will probably need different software also.time will tell if this is what replaces cd's and dvd's.people are resistant to change especially if its going to cost them to upgrade thier hardware.its sound pretty good though!!!

[Friggemall]

not hard to believe at all 1 tb is coming soon enough. You're welcome, technology brought to you by University of Illinois. Screw MIT! :)

[beefcake]

not hard to believe at all 1 tb is coming soon enough. You're welcome, technology brought to you by University of Illinois. Screw MIT! :)

Probably so. I remember when my high school teacher announced the new DVD's to us about how they would hold so and so many gb's. It was hard to believe at the time cause we were still in the era of where hard drives were just barely touching a gb, but now hd are up to 400gb's. If 300gb dvd's are coming out, then tb hd have got to be around the corner.