Sony & Panasonic team up for new 300GB discs by 2015

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by djgeneral

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news...it-1200569762/

To me, it’s kind of amazing (and, at the same time gratifying, as it points to good interest in regards to the consumer 4K movement) that these professional blogger articles are glossing over the stated intent of the basic agreement between Sony and Panasonic and pretty much concentrating on its potential application for 4K home media. I mean, not a word on a main competitor to the 300 GB disc project…namely LTO tape, and the comparative advantages and disadvantages of each storage solution, i.e. a disc-based format allows easy access to file-based content and one is less forced to migrate every 5-7 years as often seen with LTO tape, etc.

Anyway, since the trades and tech bloggers seem focused on 300 GB Blu-ray discs for 4K home media (seemingly downplaying the efficiency of advanced compression schemes), these are some alternative views, the later being from an Apple fanboy who ends the article with the infamous “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt” phrase.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/...o-save-the-cd/
http://blogs.computerworld.com/stora...t-apple-doesnt