I buy DVD's by the 100 on a spool and rent movies. I could careless which format won the movie war, I cared greatly about which one won the storage war.
It came down to one question for me. Which format holds the most data? If I buy 100 of those shiny round disks, which one can I store the most stuff on?
As a Geek, which do you own more of? Blank CDs / DVD or store bought DVD movies? In the end, which format had the most impact to the average geek at home?
Store bought movies, by a wide wide margin. My most recent optical purchase was ten pack of RW discs a couple years back.
For the most part I think the salad days of optical media as an archival data format are mostly over. External drives are dirt cheap, much faster, higher capacity, far more convienent and more compatible (anything sold in the last decade will have a USB port, only a handful of machines have Blu-ray). And for smaller applications, flash drives are also dirt cheap, faster, more convienent and more compatible.
Are there some people who will want or need high capacity removable storage? Sure, but they'll be a minority. Are there more people who will want a writer to master home movies? Sure, but given the output of camcorders (even HD), a single layer of either format (or even DVD-9) would more than suffice for most people. Unless you happen to be an aspiring director shooting your home movies with lossless nine channel audio or something. :)
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I buy DVD's by the 100 on a spool and rent movies. I could careless which format won the movie war, I cared greatly about which one won the storage war.
It came down to one question for me. Which format holds the most data? If I buy 100 of those shiny round disks, which one can I store the most stuff on?
As a Geek, which do you own more of? Blank CDs / DVD or store bought DVD movies? In the end, which format had the most impact to the average geek at home?
- Roger
If you could care less which format won the movie war, it means you have room to care more, or simply, you do actually care.
You probably mean you *couldn't* care less, or simply, you don't give a shit which format won the war.
@ roger_huston
Store bought movies, by a wide wide margin. My most recent optical purchase was ten pack of RW discs a couple years back.
For the most part I think the salad days of optical media as an archival data format are mostly over. External drives are dirt cheap, much faster, higher capacity, far more convienent and more compatible (anything sold in the last decade will have a USB port, only a handful of machines have Blu-ray). And for smaller applications, flash drives are also dirt cheap, faster, more convienent and more compatible.
Are there some people who will want or need high capacity removable storage? Sure, but they'll be a minority. Are there more people who will want a writer to master home movies? Sure, but given the output of camcorders (even HD), a single layer of either format (or even DVD-9) would more than suffice for most people. Unless you happen to be an aspiring director shooting your home movies with lossless nine channel audio or something. :)