500gb optical disc. Will it replace blu ray already

[ScarredLungs]

Already done. August 5, 2008. Pioneer created a 500GB blu ray disc.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/storag...lu-ray-Disc/p1

[SlmShdy1]

Is this the same or different from RED Ray?

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=96774

[skygreenleopard]

This won't be the death knell for Blu-Ray. Other than giant screens, I don't foresee a need for higher resolution than we can get now from BD, so for the average television consumer, the possibility of movies on this disc matters little. I mean, people already criticize Blu-Ray for not offering much beyond DVD. What about this? What can you offer, besides higher resolution (which is moot unless you're displaying this in theaters with high-res projectors) and the capacity to offer more than one movie per disc? Blu-Ray's success was tied to the HDTV revolution. If not, multilayer DVDs would have found success earlier.

What this CAN offer is a new kind of viewing experience, but for the immediate future, I doubt this will impact home theater viewing.

[Anthony P]

do we realy need 100 threads on this? and to answer your question, no

[dialog_gvf]

What I find amazing is that every single announcement of recordable media breakthroughs (BD or whatever) is greeted by a wave of people querying about or predicting its use for packaged media.

It's not happened so far, for large volumes, since the launch of CD.

Replication would need to be invented for holographic discs, or the recordable media would have to drop under $5 to begin to be viable for duplication.

Gary

[OrlandoEastwood]

No and if it is, f*** it because I will not convert until Blu-Ray is dead like VHS.

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

No and if it is, f*** it because I will not convert until Blu-Ray is dead like VHS.

Well said. I agree.

Until everyone has 1000" screens and/or bionic eyes, there's no reason to go past the resolution that we can already get from Blu-ray.