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Hiryuu Sword Maiden Retired Admin                   Since: 11-17-05 From: Nerima District - Tokyo, Japan Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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Holo-disc plans. 300GB discs on sale. 18,000 for the device, 180 for the 300GB disc. There are, of course, 200GB 8-layer Blu-Rays available now. If I read the first one right, they play on -1.6 TB- discs by 2010. My question is why the heck would you need this much just yet? Store every single DVD you ever bought uncompressed? |
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Koitenshin +∞ Moblin   Since: 12-24-05 From: Misery Last post: 6288 days Last view: 6288 days |
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| I believe it is so you can have all the roms in the world on one or two discs. That or craploads of porn. | |||
Drag  80  Since: 01-18-07 From: USA Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Porn, mostly. You can't use blu-ray for porn. Sony forbids it. 
That or they'll use it to hold a super duperly LARGE game that uses 64-bit bitmaps and hour long cutscenes.  |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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I've been hearing about this for years, never expected it would actually happen by now. Though, it seems that a Blu-ray burner with rewritable discs is still cheaper than this  Hell, hard disks are cheaper.
Still pretty impressive though. Also, I'd totally store every DVD I own on my hard disk uncompressed if I had the capacity (though it seems plausible with the 1TB drives coming their way). |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| Well I'll be damned, it's finally happened. Now let's see them come down to reasonable prices.
One possible use of course for a 300GB disc is uber-high quality video and audio; I'm sure they'd hold a few uncompressed DVD movies. Though there'd be little point in not compressing them anyway.
And instead of DRM, they'll just include a copy of Vista on the disc and force you to install that. |
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Hiryuu Sword Maiden Retired Admin Since: 11-17-05 From: Nerima District - Tokyo, Japan Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| I mean hell we're up to the gig(s) of RAM era.
Am I the only one to remember there being a case where '640K of RAM is more than enough'? YOTTABYTE DRIVE PLZ |
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BooUrns Buster Beetle  Since: 05-07-06 From: The CS Last post: 6287 days Last view: 6287 days |
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| You have to wonder what we're going to think in 30 years as we look back. Will we laugh at how small 1 TB hard drives are?
It's a good thing for Microsoft that these massive disks are being created. They'll need all that space for whatever extra bloat their next OS includes.  |
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Koitenshin +∞ Moblin Since: 12-24-05 From: Misery Last post: 6288 days Last view: 6288 days |
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| Windows Jupiter...just because you think you have free space we'll prove you wrong.
:EDIT: and what happens if you just managed to make a $180 coaster? I can see the money being wasted now. (edited by Koitenshin +∞ on 01-20-07 03:57 AM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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Originally posted by Hiryuu Not quite. I remember my 88MB of disk space and 16 (or 8?) MB of RAM being pretty awesome, until the hard drive pooped out. Hell, look at the NES's 2KB of RAM! |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Originally posted by BooUrns No, we'll laugh at how crappy 1080p HDTV is
Oh, and why do you (Hiryuu) make me feel bad for having 256MB of RAM? I hardly use it all anyway. |
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Hiryuu Sword Maiden Retired Admin Since: 11-17-05 From: Nerima District - Tokyo, Japan Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| I have 192 (yea, I know, and it's PC100 even...can't even use 133 in this POS) and a 256MB vid card. I feel you. :\
But that quote was from Gates, if I'm not mistaken. Hell I remember my 12MHz 286 VGA enhanced system with 1024K of RAM with the turbo button and 40MB hard drive that was split 32/8 for reasons unexplained playing Scorched Earth on it with no problems whatsoever. That PC soundboard was BAD ASS. You don't HEAR PC speakers that loud anymore. (edited by Hiryuu on 01-20-07 02:40 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| Hah, yes, I've seen old computers where I could actually play MP3s through the speaker louder than some external speakers that had their own power supply.
256MB of VRAM is pretty decent, though I suppose it may be a bit low for high-end games. I have 128MB myself, but the card is total junk. :-/ |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Originally posted by FreeDOS +I think that's stretching that a bit. I have a old TV in my family house, and while it's 15 years old, it's still ok. Mind you that HDTV did exist around the time it was bought as well... well the technology at least.Originally posted by BooUrns (edited by Ailure on 01-21-07 12:30 AM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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Yeah, video at 6GB/min... seems a bit excessive. Though I can see media companies pushing it if only because such massive movies would take ages to download.  (edited by Alice on 01-25-07 12:23 AM) |
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Boom.dk Since: 11-18-05 From: Denmark Last post: 6304 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| Not necessarely. The internet would also be a lot faster. | |||
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| Ever download a 6GB file? Theoretically it can be fast, but realistically... And this is 6GB per minute, or 720GB per 2-hour video. Compare at ~8GB for a 2-hour DVD... I can't see average download speeds getting 90 times faster in the next 3 years. (edited by Alice on 01-25-07 12:25 AM) |
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Simon Belmont Except I'm totally fucking hyped about Dracula X: Chronicles.  Since: 11-18-05 From: Pittsburgh Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Originally posted by Hiryuu You don't know how much you rock. As for the storage, I"ll never be able to afford it, so frankly I don't care at all. I'll use the mother-fucking ENIAC. |
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Sweet Kassy Molassy Out of ice cream and PB. Would KILL for a milkshake right now.  Since: 06-17-06 From: LoozeeAnna Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| Umm...yeah...
I think I'll just continue to buy hard drives. |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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Originally posted by Alice Japan and Sweden have 100MBit lines (UPLOAD), and I think Japan is even in the 1Gbit lines range. We have 1-6Mbit on average. I'm thinking more like 170 times faster... ...though telcos will drag it out as long as possible or charge you out the ass for it, even though other countries are getting their 100Mb lines for the same price as a preimum line here. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6286 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| 640kb was never enough with all the damn expanded/extended memory nonsense. Going through hoops just to play certain games that needed exactly X amount of conventional memory...
I always thought my Celeron was fast when I first got it. Fun times... |
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