Panasonic's new Blu-ray disc is produced at a rate of 10,000 discs per month.
Panasonic's new Blu-ray disc is produced at a rate of 10,000 discs per month.
Tech Ping!..............
Meh.... Optical disks....
At 2x it will take about 12 hours to write something of any significant size to it!!
That’s a lot of pr0n.
I’m sure there are certain industry applications for such a disc, but do consumers care? With everything digitized and high-speed networking and broadband available, the medium doesn’t matter. You can send and receive your content over the network, and keep moving your data to the latest storage devices as they become available. For the few times you may want to put something on a physical medium, flash drives and SD cards are smaller and faster.
I’ve hardly turned on my home Blu-Ray player since signing up for streaming Netflix, and my brand new computer that was just delivered Monday doesn’t even have a Blu-Ray player. Some new computers come without any optical drives at all. This new disc strikes me as the latest, greatest buggy whip on the market.
I’m not seeing a niche for REWRITABLE optical disks this big.
Write-once disks are used to archive/backup legal material (from contracts to insurance forms to checks) on a large scale. But the legal requirements are that they not be rewirtable. Once you burn a file to it, it is there forever.
Allowing rewrite makes this disk useless for legal archiving.
And I don’t see anyone using this for any other type of storage.
It looks like a great solution for 5-10 years ago.