End of DVDs?

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


Wait a little longer and you'll have high gig, non-volatile memory
sticks.

E. Barry Bruyea

Not interested in waiting more . Want what is available right
now . actually with 300gb hard drives in the Sky plus , it means over
150hrs of storage , about 50 dvds at extremely high quality . And with
movies recorded from movie channels one can watch it later . In fact
there are at least ten new movies being shown on B4U , Star , Sky ,
San , Vectone , Zee , Sony and other Asian channels in the west

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:10:35 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea <it'>
wrote:

Wait a little longer and you'll have high gig, non-volatile memory
sticks.

habshi

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:32:29 GMT, "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.

Which DVD's are 9 gig?

Take your pick:

DVD-5 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB) of data, over 2 hours of
video
DVD-9 (12 cm, SS/DL) 7.95 gig (8.54 BB), about 4 hours
DVD-10 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.74 gig (9.40 BB), about 4.5 hours
DVD-14 (12 cm, DS/ML) 12.32 gig (13.24 BB), about 6.5 hours
DVD-18 (12 cm, DS/DL) 15.90 gig (17.08 BB), over 8 hours
DVD-1 (8 cm, SS/SL) 1.36 gig (1.46 BB), about half an hour
DVD-2 (8 cm, SS/DL) 2.47 gig (2.66 BB), about 1.3 hours
DVD-3 (8 cm, DS/SL) 2.72 gig (2.92 BB), about 1.4 hours
DVD-4 (8 cm, DS/DL) 4.95 gig (5.32 BB), about 2.5 hours

DVD-R 1.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 3.68 gig (3.95 BB)
DVD-R 2.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB)
DVD-R 2.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.75 gig (9.40 BB)
DVD-RW 2.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB)
DVD-RW 2.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.75 gig (9.40 BB)
DVD+R 2.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB)
DVD+R 2.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.75 gig (9.40 BB)
DVD+RW 2.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB)
DVD+RW 2.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.75 gig (9.40 BB)
DVD-RAM 1.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 2.40 gig (2.58 BB)
DVD-RAM 1.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 4.80 gig (5.16 BB)
DVD-RAM 2.0 (12 cm, SS/SL) 4.37 gig (4.70 BB)*
DVD-RAM 2.0 (12 cm, DS/SL) 8.75 gig (9.40 BB)*
DVD-RAM 2.0 (8 cm, SS/SL) 1.36 gig (1.46 BB)*
DVD-RAM 2.0 (8 cm, DS/SL) 2.47 gig (2.65 BB)*
CD-ROM (12 cm, SS/SL, 74 minutes) 0.635 gig (0.682 BB)
CD-ROM (12 cm, SS/SL, 80 minutes) 0.687 gig (0.737 BB)
CD-ROM (8 cm, SS/SL) 0.180 gig (0.194 BB)
DDCD-ROM (12 cm, SS/SL) 1.270 gig (1.364 BB)
DDCD-ROM (8 cm, SS/SL) 0.360 gig (0.387 BB)



"Please check your facts before making an ass of yourself."






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Allan

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:55:50 -0500, Anymous <>
wrote:

>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.

DVD-5 is typically 60 minutes or less? Or look like crap?

Quite amazing the amount of misinformation out there.






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

Allan

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?

"DVD-18 (12 cm, DS/DL) 15.90 gig (17.08 BB), over 8 hours"







"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

Allan

"habshi" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Not interested in waiting more . Want what is available right
> now . actually with 300gb hard drives in the Sky plus , it means over
> 150hrs of storage , about 50 dvds at extremely high quality . And with
> movies recorded from movie channels one can watch it later . In fact
> there are at least ten new movies being shown on B4U , Star , Sky ,
> San , Vectone , Zee , Sony and other Asian channels in the west

How many movie channels do you subscribe to? How much do they cost per
month?

Thanks bud.

DS

>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:10:35 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea <it'>
> wrote:
>
> Wait a little longer and you'll have high gig, non-volatile memory
> sticks.
>
>

Dayananda Saraswati

"Allan" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:55:50 -0500, Anymous <>
> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> DVD-5 is typically 60 minutes or less? Or look like crap?
>
> Quite amazing the amount of misinformation out there.
A 100 minute movie can actually look pretty good with the right
DVD player and some very careful compression.

Once you reach 2 hours and more, it is hard to maintain the
image quality and still have a movie fit on only one layer.

Mark Jones

right now the best buy is panasonic dvd recorder with 120 gig hd.
it comes with vcr so you can re-record vhs tapes on dvd, re-record camcorder
tapes on dvd, and record tv programs on a prescheduled basis. the machine
has all kinds of good stuff on it like tv guide, use of dvd-ram, and quality
is legendary panasonic. cost: $599.



"§§ Blue Ice §§" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
>
>
> useless..
>
> why don't u buy a 60GB notebook HDD for about 120$ and spend another 10$
> for the usb2 box for the hdd and u have massive storage at yr fingertips.
>
> 40gigs @200$ is useless.

harmony

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 ?

"Moving parts" bad. All hard drives die, eventually.

Doonie

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


useless..

why don't u buy a 60GB notebook HDD for about 120$ and spend another 10$
for the usb2 box for the hdd and u have massive storage at yr fingertips.

40gigs @200$ is useless.

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