New technology always fascinates me, but sometimes it takes a while for it to sink in, so I'll just touch briefly on an article I read in the December Widescreen Review and hope I get it right.
To quote the article,"a revolutionary optical media technology with stellar capacities", whew.
It's called FMD(fluorescent multilayer disc) and was developed by a team of scientists in the mid 1990s, who after realizing what they had, formed a company called Constallation 3D,Inc., to commercialize their invention.
It's digital storage taken to a limit that's hard to comprehend. Imagine a disc the sze of a dvd with a storage capacity of more than 400GB, and a read/write speed above 100 million bits per second.
Compare that 400GB to today's dvd maximum of 18GB (DVD18)which is rarely used due to complexities and cost, or to the more commonly used DVD9 with its 8.5GB of storage on two layers.
The article goes on about how the new technology not only affects the future of dvds, but just about anything with digital storage.But what does that really mean for we dvd folk? Well for one thing it would mean high res capabilities, and then you could have hours of extras, less compression of the soundtracks, etc. Sounds great ,doesn't it.
But if they build it, will they ( the studios) come ? Considering their paranoia about piracy and what have you, it's not likely we'll see much here for some time to come.
Still it's wonderful to imagine dvd as good as film.
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To quote the article,"a revolutionary optical media technology with stellar capacities", whew.
It's called FMD(fluorescent multilayer disc) and was developed by a team of scientists in the mid 1990s, who after realizing what they had, formed a company called Constallation 3D,Inc., to commercialize their invention.
It's digital storage taken to a limit that's hard to comprehend. Imagine a disc the sze of a dvd with a storage capacity of more than 400GB, and a read/write speed above 100 million bits per second.
Compare that 400GB to today's dvd maximum of 18GB (DVD18)which is rarely used due to complexities and cost, or to the more commonly used DVD9 with its 8.5GB of storage on two layers.
The article goes on about how the new technology not only affects the future of dvds, but just about anything with digital storage.But what does that really mean for we dvd folk? Well for one thing it would mean high res capabilities, and then you could have hours of extras, less compression of the soundtracks, etc. Sounds great ,doesn't it.
But if they build it, will they ( the studios) come ? Considering their paranoia about piracy and what have you, it's not likely we'll see much here for some time to come.
Still it's wonderful to imagine dvd as good as film.
My Homepage!
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