End of DVDs?

Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte dvds when you can have tiny
portable 40 Gigabyte 2 inch hard drives which can store seven times
as much ? Enough for a high definition movie ? and erasable ?
Certainly the picture quality from the 40gb sky plus hard
drive is superior to any dvd I have seen.With ultrafast broadband one
could download the movies overnight .

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology...tory?id=388168

habshi

habshi wrote:
> Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte dvds when you can have tiny
> portable 40 Gigabyte 2 inch hard drives which can store seven times
> as much ? Enough for a high definition movie ? and erasable ?
> Certainly the picture quality from the 40gb sky plus hard
> drive is superior to any dvd I have seen.With ultrafast broadband one
> could download the movies overnight .
>
> http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology...tory?id=388168

Yes - at +/-$200 (plus the cost of the hardware to drive it, of course),
it's an absolute bargain, compared with the cost of the seven blank DVDs you
say that it can it replace.....

paul

P Pron

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:48:14 GMT, (habshi) wrote:

> Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte dvds when you can have tiny
>portable 40 Gigabyte 2 inch hard drives which can store seven times
>as much ? Enough for a high definition movie ? and erasable ?
> Certainly the picture quality from the 40gb sky plus hard
>drive is superior to any dvd I have seen.With ultrafast broadband one
>could download the movies overnight .
>
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology...tory?id=388168

And the cost per gig of storage compared to a DVD?
-Rich

RichA

The hard disk is still a mechanical device, not 100% shock proof.
Wait for the mass unveiling this year of Sony blu-ray and HD-DVD, these will
gives you 30 to 50 Gb in a sing DVD, as good as the 40gb micro-drive, if not
better.


"habshi" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte dvds when you can have tiny
> portable 40 Gigabyte 2 inch hard drives which can store seven times
> as much ? Enough for a high definition movie ? and erasable ?
> Certainly the picture quality from the 40gb sky plus hard
> drive is superior to any dvd I have seen.With ultrafast broadband one
> could download the movies overnight .
>
> http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology...tory?id=388168

krypton

"habshi" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte

DVD's are 9 gig. Please check your facts before making an ass of yourself.

Large Farva

Per krypton:
>Wait for the mass unveiling this year of Sony blu-ray and HD-DVD, these will
>gives you 30 to 50 Gb in a sing DVD, as good as the 40gb micro-drive, if not
>better.

Is that to say that I should postpone my purchase of a DVD burner? 30 gigs
sounds kind of radical to be achievable by a firmware upgrade on something I buy
today....
--
PeteCresswell

(Pete Cresswell)

Large Farva wrote:
> "habshi" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte
>
> DVD's are 9 gig. Please check your facts before making an ass of
yourself.

Typical movies are on 4.7GB DVDs.

ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com

In article <1HXKd.2191$ t>,
"Large Farva" <> wrote:

> DVD's are 9 gig. Please check your facts before making an ass of yourself.

Also, can't a DVD-18 hold close to 20 gigs?
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush

Black Locust

Well yea, since its just a double sided DVD-9.

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:17:53 -0600, Black Locust <>
wrote:

>In article <1HXKd.2191$ t>,
> "Large Farva" <> wrote:
>
>> DVD's are 9 gig. Please check your facts before making an ass of yourself.
>
>Also, can't a DVD-18 hold close to 20 gigs?

Anymous

Actually most the movies are on dual layered DVDs which are 9 gig.
Any movie which is on a 4.7 GB DVD is either under 60 mins or encoded
at a really low bitrate which means it probrobly looks like crap.


On 29 Jan 2005 19:10:34 -0800, ""
<> wrote:

>
>Large Farva wrote:
>> "habshi" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> > Who wants fiddly 5inch 3 Gigabyte
>>
>> DVD's are 9 gig. Please check your facts before making an ass of
>yourself.
>
>Typical movies are on 4.7GB DVDs.

Anymous