Interesting development in red laser DVDs (1 Viewer)

[Jeff D]

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20020524S0063
Seems they can get 40-60GB of storage compared to blu-ray's 27GB. It's still early in development, but maybe red laser is the way to go...

 

[Jack Briggs]

Interesting. The story made no mention of this prototype's suitability to HD.

 

[Jeff D]

Isn't the only problem with HD the bandwidth required? I thought the current 4.5GB DVD-Rs could only hold less than 30 minutes HD data.

I'm not sure what else would be a factor. It seems you'd just need a new drive and all existing red laser content would be compatible. Pretty cool, and cheaper!

 

[Ian Montgomerie]

Correct, it's all digital data. The only limitations for HD media are that it needs to be able to store a large amount of data and retrieve it quickly.