Mini Blu-ray Disc...

[CoolBalla15]

How much space do they hold?

[Dave]

See post 3


/offtopic: mini HD DVD for example are ... useless. they are so small that they cant fit HD video at all

[Blu-rayrules]

Actually Dave it isn't half

Regular CD - 700 MB
Mini CD - 210 MB
Regular sized DVD - 4.7 GB
Mini DVD - 1.4 GB

So mini Blu ray's should be as so...

Single Layer - 7.5 GB
Dual Layer - 15 GB
Quad Layer - 30 GB
Eight Layer - 60 GB

Which if you could record to a eight layer Mini BD-RE.... ...about 5.4 hours of HD video

[takezo]

That will not be for a while. Mini BD-Rs and REs are primarily for home video, people can finaly record home movies in HD or record several mini dvd worth of SDTV home vids on a single disk.

[georgir]

mini BDs seemed a great idea for camcorders or portable videoplayers a couple years back (you know, when bluray woulda shoulda coulda been launched but wasn't...)

now its obvious we'll get to wait atleast an year more before we see them in that field, and they still won't be more than two layers.

with 8gb flash cards already available (and development in that field just keeps speeding up - i just read something about samsung 64GB flash with new PRAM tech), not to mention hdd camcorders and such, i'm really not that anxious waiting for bluray anymore...

[Psiweaver]

advantages of having a disc rather than some other medium ie hard drive is that they are generally cheaper so you can carry more with you plus they can be dropped right into a player and then yoru good to go.

[jorg]

flash memory is slow
same with hdd for camcorders
if mini bd read and wright speeds are the same as ther bigge rbrothers then they will be supior(and if they can get atlest dule layer out