Hitachi's 100GB Blu-ray disc drive

Sure, it's just a prototype for now, but we can't help but feel a bit smitten with any drive capable of playing 100GB of data off a single 4-layer optical disc. The BD camp was also touting 200GB, 8-layer discs as they have since 2004 (at least) while showing off the components that will usher in 8x performance (double-that of existing commercial gear) in a more realistic timeframe. When that might be exactly, no one's willing to say.

[DaveBG Posted Oct 3rd 2007 7:19AM]

Yeah!
This one drive with the extreamly durable Panasonic 100GB Blu-ray media is the ultimate dream i have!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 7:29AM]

Wow, now we can watch a movie and have 90GB to spare, just what we need

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 7:48AM]

you really have no idea how this all works do you?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 8:45AM]

Is suppose your going to give me the data storage sermon now eh, and tell me how much better that is then say a USB back up hard drive? Or is it one of the other BR fanboy sermons, eg "more headroom" bullshit, let's see which one it is.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 8:56AM]

Um ... right. Because there is absolutely no other reason for BD than movies. Data archiving/backup is a totally off-the-wall idea for these. *sigh*

[DaveBG Posted Oct 3rd 2007 10:24AM]

Sorry smee, but A1 is right. You have no idea what you are talking about :)
Find another place to troll please...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 11:11AM]

This will be great in the future when TV series are released... "1 Disc"

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 4th 2007 11:20AM]

Hey now don't get too excited HD DVD has a 51GB Disk....lls...fail.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 12:35PM]

good comeback, i feel so small, you really got me with that one. :) I thought you might have come back and shown that maybe you did know something about this but you didn't, validating my first point even more. Thank you.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 3rd 2007 7:26PM]

i love how they display discs and the drives and even in proses or burning but yet t51 has never seen anythign like this:P