Read Speed

[Boils]

What will the read speed of Blue-ray be. Is it in the specs or up to the player manufacturer. Will Blu-ray act as a hard drive or just be a storage medium for stupidHollywoodmovies.com. Seems like a shame if it is the latter. All that money and technology to entertain illiterate 19 year old Third World males. Such a waste. A disc that can deliver digital information could blow up the book industry and give publishers a way to distribute high quality digital images with sound and text. This is something that the internet is not going to do any day soon. Aside fromt he hype the internet actually cheapens content standards. But hey Follywood rules.

[thunderhawk]

I suggest you read this:
http://forums.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=593&page=5

Might help

[Boils]

I can't believe no one cares abot this. It (blu-ray) is the best portable storage medium and display medium and no one is taking advantage of it. Everything is for Hollywood only? Even the computer manufacturers don't seem to get it. The compact flash cards et all are wildly expensive.Everyone will have a blu-ray player. Why can't it be one that makes the disk act as a protable and cheap hard drive?

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by Boils

I can't believe no one cares abot this. It (blu-ray) is the best portable storage medium and display medium and no one is taking advantage of it. Everything is for Hollywood only? Even the computer manufacturers don't seem to get it. The compact flash cards et all are wildly expensive.Everyone will have a blu-ray player. Why can't it be one that makes the disk act as a protable and cheap hard drive?

Both Apple and Dell claim they will support and ship Blu-ray drives. Neither has made any mention of supporting or shipping HD-DVD. (Although some people have snooped through Apple's code base and found support for HD-DVD, and certainly if Windows Vista includes support for HD-DVD then Dell boxes running Windows Vista will support HD-DVD.)

Flash is still insanely expensive for anything beyond 2GB (even 2GB sticks are very expensive). I don't expect flash to be cost competitive with other rewritable media for capacities beyond 2GB for a few more years. Clearly they won't be cost competitive with re-writable media in either the HD-DVD or Blu-ray capacities for a decade or more.

You can buy portable/cheap/small hard drives today. Some even run off bus power (USB or Firewire) and thus don't need a separate power cord. However, none of them are as rugged as a CD/DVD. Put a DVD into it's case and toss it where you want. I would not suggest doing that with a hard drive.

Blu-ray will give that portability. With initial re-writable disks in the 50GB range, and eventually going to 200GB range, this then becomes the new HUGE floppy. IF the costs are reasonable.

[Boils]

But still none of the manufacturers realize that a 2 gig disk is worthless if the search IE read time is as slow as it it with DVD. Blue-ray would be a perfect medium for publishing. Imagine hugh photographs with text and sound at almost ZERO publishing cost. But this will not happen if Hollywood Fright Movies Producers rule the day.
Fight Hollywood Advance Knowledge

[georgir]

i dont get your point. DVDs aren't slow, not really. publishing photos and text and sound and whatever works pretty well with them, hell it works with CDs even.

the drawback is they can't be used as harddrives, for random-access write operations... but for readonly purposes they are ideal already.

i don't know what the figures about bluray's possible rewrites are, maybe if they are good enough packet-writing software will finally become common enough to really use optical media in the same way as a harddrive.