[So Cal Rocket]

TiVo and the other DVR companies will love a 1 Tb hard-drive which will allow you to record several High Definition movies on a single drive.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See above for the way it was a few short years ago....that is not a small cabinet...

[Steely Tom]

TiVo and the other DVR companies will love a 1 Tb hard-drive which will allow you to record several High Definition movies on a single drive.

I know, I know.

I'm not knockin' it. Just being a little cynical.

Did you ever read Asimov's I Robot books? In one story, the protagonist and his human sidekick travel to a distant planet to investigate a murder. The entire planet has a population (carefully controlled) of 20,000 humans, and 200 million robots.

Anyway, everyone communicates electronically; to be in another person's physical presence is considered almost impossibly vulgar and unclean.

But people still like to meet, go to parties, have dinner together, etc... all done via three-dimensional holography supported by high-bandwidth communications.

I mention this because I keep wondering what people will do not so much with storage capacity but with bandwidth capacity. How long will HDTV last? Conventional TV lasted for what, 50 years? I very much doubt HDTV will last more than 10 or 15. Remember when CD's came out? I thought that was it. Then DVDs came out, only 10 years later or so.

(steely)

[Steely Tom]

I was reading a Microsoft "Advanced Windows" book, which covered programming issues surrounding the next generation 64-bit chips (the Alpha was mentioned too). That's when it really hit me... Those chips can address 180,000 terabytes of memory!

The human brain contains what, 13 billion neurons? The memory space of these 64 bit chips could support a model of the human brain with almost 14 megabytes of information per virtual neuron!

(steely)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is the info for the major use of one terabyte disk drives:

Home Theatre PC Guide