@LJKelley... may i ask, do you like under a rock. Have you not seen the 100 GB 8 layer hitachi disks or the 200 gb TDK discs that were shown off nearly a year ago?
I for one find this particularly useless for HD DVD. HD DVD and blu ray have both shown that 25 and 30 gig discs are almost more than enough, as long as you use a good codec (goodbye mpeg 2). There's really only two things you can do w/ this extra space:
1) Add stupid amounts of extra features, or increase the bit rate for audio and video (but how much of a different in quality are you really going to notice by increasing the bit rate?) 2) Use this for data backup w/ an HD DVD burner...but where the hell are all the hd dvd burners i know toshiba showed one off @ CES...but i've yet to see a single one on the market?
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@LJKelley...
may i ask, do you like under a rock. Have you not seen the 100 GB 8 layer hitachi disks or the 200 gb TDK discs that were shown off nearly a year ago?
I for one find this particularly useless for HD DVD. HD DVD and blu ray have both shown that 25 and 30 gig discs are almost more than enough, as long as you use a good codec (goodbye mpeg 2). There's really only two things you can do w/ this extra space:
1) Add stupid amounts of extra features, or increase the bit rate for audio and video (but how much of a different in quality are you really going to notice by increasing the bit rate?)
2) Use this for data backup w/ an HD DVD burner...but where the hell are all the hd dvd burners i know toshiba showed one off @ CES...but i've yet to see a single one on the market?