Comments on: What’s Next After Blu-Ray?

By: Marcus Poulin

Marcus Poulin — Mon, 24 May 2010 04:48:44 +0000

Probably eventually something Plasmonic and into the Yottabyte ranges and that is certainly needed.

CD is 780 nanometers and 670 MB of storage

DVD is 650 nm and 4.7 GB

Blu-Ray 405 nm 25 to 50 GB

So imagine down to 30 or 40 nanometer chip features with surface wave plasmons and encoding down to that level and using an attosecond to encode the data?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:17:54 +0000

OMG. Hilarious comparisons. We can’t use usb flash drives for movies because the video can’t be accessed fast enough from that little stick. If you insisted on using a flash drive, you would have to install the 50+GB movie on your disk player first and then play it from the player, which would take time that no one wants to deal with. Then that would mean that the player would need a massive hard drive. And I’m not even going to start with the copyright issues from installing a movie on your hard drive and potentially giving them away to thousands of other people. The future is no disk at all. In the future, your player will receive a network similar to cable tv or satellite. If you bought the movie, your data will be stored at a far away facility ready to broadcast it to you whenever you select it from your menu.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:11:10 +0000

Good point. We’ve got companies like Apple and Blockbuster that have invested in the online distribution channel. Assuming that our devices can talk to the ‘cloud’, we may not need anything portable at all. Well, at least not a portable device just for storing data.

By: Jordan Kettner

Jordan Kettner — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:51:45 +0000

I have followed exactly the same thought process. But I think that it goes one step further than a USB flash drive.

I think that interfaces like Apple TV and other home theater hard drive systems will take over. Buy your movies online and automatically sync to your laptop, desktop, and TV hard drive. Or as bandwidth allows have it all stored on a personal movie server and stream it to your computer, tv, or phone on demand.

This technology already exists, but in my opinion it is only being slowed down by the maximum allowable adoption rate.