Anything better than Blu-ray?

[blu-ray fan002]

With the technology that has been put into Blu-ray, will anything else really beat it that the public will see? I know that 100GB discs are in developing (or developed) but will the general public see its purpose? Maybe Blu-ray is the best it can get for a long long time. Maybe in 20-30 years they Sony and other major companies will see a purpose for 100GB discs or greater but again will the general public see the point? The future of home entertainment for our generation is Blu-ray.

[stockstar1138]

i'm 19 and when my grandparent's were my age, they thought black and white tv was as good as technology gets. A colored movie was amazing and they said to themselves, will anything ever get better than colored movies. Since then how far have we come. To them back then, what we have now wouldn't even be able to be imagined. Me sitting on a couch talking to thousands of people at once, letting the whole world know my thoughts in the blink of a click. Then, clicking to a new tab, looking at thousands of naked girls, then clicking over another tab and ordering a pizza that will come straight to my house. That would have blown their mind. And what we will have in the future, we cant begin to comprehend right now. 3d Holograms, are already coming out. go youtube sony water horse hologram, its unbelieable. so the answer to your question is, yes something will come out that is better than blu, can i tell you what it is, no. but if we learn from history we are never even close to being done maxmizing our tech.

[CheapChildren]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

With the technology that has been put into Blu-ray, will anything else really beat it that the public will see? I know that 100GB discs are in developing (or developed) but will the general public see its purpose? Maybe Blu-ray is the best it can get for a long long time. Maybe in 20-30 years they Sony and other major companies will see a purpose for 100GB discs or greater but again will the general public see the point? The future of home entertainment for our generation is Blu-ray.

20-30 years? haha. They're talking about that now. It will still be Blu-Ray discs though.

[blu-ray fan002]

Well, I can see the technology getting better like putting the Blu-ray technology onto PSP size discs. I was referring to technology making a major change like when we went from VHS to DVD (changing to a completely different stage, digital).

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

With the technology that has been put into Blu-ray, will anything else really beat it that the public will see? I know that 100GB discs are in developing (or developed) but will the general public see its purpose? Maybe Blu-ray is the best it can get for a long long time. Maybe in 20-30 years they Sony and other major companies will see a purpose for 100GB discs or greater but again will the general public see the point? The future of home entertainment for our generation is Blu-ray.

It's called HVD. Short for "holographic versatile disc" It uses two lasers, a red and a green, instead of just one, a blu-violet, used by Blu-ray. First version holds 300gig but is said to be extendable up to 3.9TB(3,900 Gig). This is 160x the capacity of Blu. There is already an HVD forum, but, I don't see Toshiba on the list. Regardless, this will make Blu seem bit starved against the next gen UHDTV format.

HVD forum

Back to 35/70mm

[jkcheng122]

100gb discs are simply bd's with 4 layers. there's no use for it atm other than for optical storage. at only 2x the size of current movie discs i can't see it being used for movies.

[docjan_uk]

Basically you have to look at limits within the home, at best we're going to look at 2D media on a wall sized screen, say 100-150 inches, and from 10-20 feet away.

At that distance, 1080P is nearing the high end, maybe in 15 years or so there will be a niche market for 4K digital using physical media, otherwise I see blu-ray quality downloads taking over as the next format around that time span.

Also keep in mind the quality of the masters etc.

Beyond that I imagine lots of work to go into future technologies such as holographic projection or merely 3D as we've already seen in development.

It WILL be done because the industry relies on new things for us to spend our money on and them to grow.
Simple economics.

[Mermen79]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

i'm 19 and when my grandparent's were my age, they thought black and white tv was as good as technology gets. A colored movie was amazing and they said to themselves, will anything ever get better than colored movies. Since then how far have we come. To them back then, what we have now wouldn't even be able to be imagined. Me sitting on a couch talking to thousands of people at once, letting the whole world know my thoughts in the blink of a click. Then, clicking to a new tab, looking at thousands of naked girls, then clicking over another tab and ordering a pizza that will come straight to my house. That would have blown their mind. And what we will have in the future, we cant begin to comprehend right now. 3d Holograms, are already coming out. go youtube sony water horse hologram, its unbelieable. so the answer to your question is, yes something will come out that is better than blu, can i tell you what it is, no. but if we learn from history we are never even close to being done maxmizing our tech.

True but technology improves at a curve... you can't compare the HUGE transition from the 50's to 70's and expect that same thing now.

[Blu-Beard]

Yes blu will be surpassed eventually

[chrisshea]

100gig and 200gig disk would be nice to see for tv shows on blu-ray
instead of gething 4-6 50 gig disk u could have 3 100 gig or 1 200 gig and 1 100 gig

[yellowblanket]

yes, i can see it now!
turn on a movie on my tv and my livingroom suddenly become the movie. I'm talking about 4D image! You will know what it's like to be right in the middle of a gun fight in harlem, you will know what it's feel like when you touch the sword in Afro samurai, ect... YOU WILL GET TO PET THE DINOSAUR IN JURASIC PARK!

lol

[aygie]

Originally Posted by Blu-Beard

Yes blu will be surpassed eventually

4k TV's and 200GB discs

[RustyK94]

Heres the link for HVD forum

http://hvd-forum.org/

[Kristin Simard]

Anything better than Blu-ray?

sex

[RustyK94]

Originally Posted by Kristin Simard

Anything better than Blu-ray?

sex

I can't get sex so it's bluray for me

[Blu-Beard]

Originally Posted by Aygie

4k TV's and 200GB discs

That will be nice

[aygie]

Originally Posted by RustyK94

Heres the link for HVD forum

http://hvd-forum.org/

Better than this http://www.hd-dvd.com/

[aygie]

Originally Posted by Blu-Beard

That will be nice

oh yeah

[mightypen]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

With the technology that has been put into Blu-ray, will anything else really beat it that the public will see? I know that 100GB discs are in developing (or developed) but will the general public see its purpose? Maybe Blu-ray is the best it can get for a long long time. Maybe in 20-30 years they Sony and other major companies will see a purpose for 100GB discs or greater but again will the general public see the point? The future of home entertainment for our generation is Blu-ray.

I can see 10 years, but I can't see the tech and media companies allowing 20+ years before releasing the successor to blu ray. Too much money left on the table. Far better for them to change up the formats and figure out how to market it to the public in order to reboot the pricing scale to hit higher margins.

[RustyK94]

Originally Posted by Aygie

Better than this http://www.hd-dvd.com/

Sorry what was that format again

HVD looks cool still about 15 years away.