Toshiba Announces 50GB HD DVD Disc

[Feyd]

Toshiba continues to improve HD DVD storage capacity. At the HD DVD Promotion Group's press conference this evening, the company announced it has developed 50GB triple-layer rewritable and ROM media.

This capacity is up from the company’s previous explorations of a higher-capacity 45GB triple-layer disc. Currently, HD DVD maxes out at a 30GB dual-layer disc.

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003423.html

There goes the much flaunted (by BD fanatics) "space advantage".

[enigma]

This is about as close to production as the 200gb blu-ray disks that sony reported

[Feyd]

Originally Posted by enigma

This is about as close to production as the 200gb blu-ray disks that sony reported

No. That's what your HOPING. Truth often differs from fantasy.

[Aodh]

Originally Posted by enigma

This is about as close to production as the 200gb blu-ray disks that sony reported

This is one-up on the Dual-Layer Blu-ray discs last year that just didn't work that were playing on hard drives pretending to work. o.ob

[Pat H]

Originally Posted by enigma

This is about as close to production as the 200gb blu-ray disks that sony reported

Too bad modern Blu Ray players probably won't be able to read them. What an advantage...unusable discs!

[firelizard]

You guys realize that 30 GB is more then sufficient for most HD content. 50 GB better still more then you need. 200 GB, whoa that is a lot of space.

[HarakoMeshi]

Lol, it's so ridiculous. We got 50GB with tripple layer technology! We r0x0r! When Blu-ray had it with 2 layers a year before.

What do people think would be cheaper to produce, 2 or 3 layers?

Originally Posted by enigma

This is about as close to production as the 200gb blu-ray disks that sony reported

De-Nile.. is more than a river in Egypt..

[Feyd]

Originally Posted by HarakoMeshi

Lol, it's so ridiculous. We got 50GB with tripple layer technology! We r0x0r! When Blu-ray had it with 2 layers a year before.

Yet only working very recently.

You sound a little bitter at the news, btw.

[HarakoMeshi]

Originally Posted by Feyd

Yet only working very recently.

You sound a little bitter at the news, btw.

50GB recordable media was available and in shops in Japan in April 06.

Why would I be bitter? It's ridiculous.

It's like team A broke the land speed record in 2006, and team B boasts that they can match team A's record in 2007 or later only with a less efficient vehicle. What is that to boast about?

Whether the space is needed or not, if it comes out, then they will have matched current BD capacity and that helps PR if nothing else. Toshiba is making every right move you can make. I rate them a buy.

[Feyd]

Originally Posted by HarakoMeshi

50GB recordable media was available and in shops in Japan in April 06.

I was talking about movies that actually use a BD50.

[firelizard]

Originally Posted by Pat H

Too bad modern Blu Ray players probably won't be able to read them. What an advantage...unusable discs!

This is probably true, however, most likely any player that is able to read a a 200GB BD disc will be backwards compatible with any current BD discs.

[HarakoMeshi]

Originally Posted by Feyd

I was talking about movies that actually use a BD50.

There will never be HDDVD50 movies since it was not in the standard from beginning like BD50 was.

Whatever new media comes out, HDVD50, BD75, 100, 200 whatever will likely be for data only.

Something possible though could be to use 2 layers as a normal disc and extra layers only accessible by future players.

[Feyd]

Originally Posted by HarakoMeshi

There will never be HDDVD50 movies since it was not in the standard from beginning like BD50 was.

Wanna bet?