Pioneer offers 500GB Disc.. whoa (1 Viewer)

[Chris]

This doesn't really fit anywhere else, not hardware, not quite Software related..

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19531

Pioneer outdoes Blueray with thier optical media that stores 500GB in a standard size disc using ultra-violet recording/reading technologies. Roughly 10 times the space of BlueRay.

 

[Kevin M]

Oh man, here we go again.....format wars jubilee!

 

[Chris]

well, what did you think, the industry would make it easy? With 500GB of space, you should be able to get a full 1080p of a film, multiple soundtracks, an uncompressed multichannel soundtrack, etc.

Or, you could just get a ton of data for those who would use it as archival.

 

[Jason Adams]

And imagine if there's layers. Oooooh...

 

[Scott L]

These huge optical storage articles appear every month, but this time from a big name like Pioneer. I'm interested but I'm not holding my breath.