2.3 inches DVD and other random thoughts...

[srobert]

Just random thoughts...

Would'nt it have been fun if the industry would have opted (longer development?) for smaller DVDs, just like Nintendo's GameCube ones. Of course such DVDs only have a capacity of 1.5 GB but I could see the capacity increased in the next generation.

Imagine the possibilities a 2.3 inches DVD disk could create. A drive for such a disk would occupy much less internal space in a laptop. Of course, on the negative side, I'm not sure a full lenght movie can fit on those. And they would'nt be compatible with DVD players. Oh well. I guess the implementation should have been made at the beginning of development of the format.

Hmmm... a 2.5 inches DVD drive coupled with a 2 inches HD. That would really be a space saver in a laptop. Not sure if the 2 inches drives can whistand constant usage though.

 

[jxyama]

i wish the industry would adopt some sort of protective casing for optical discs, like Mini Disc...

mini DVD would be kinda neat, but i think i like having slot loading optical drives better...

 

[srobert]

i wish the industry would adopt some sort of protective casing for optical discs, like Mini Disc...

mini DVD would be kinda neat, but i think i like having slot loading optical drives better...

Makes me think of the old CD Caddies Apple used to use. Cumbersome but very protective.:

 

[idkew]

i had an nec drive that required caddies. that sucked. if you don't leave cds/dvds out, you won't have a scratch problem.

 

[krimson]

i believe some Panasonic camcorders use a 80mm DVD-RAM (3GB, i think) already

 

[tjwett]

there is actually some codec system that Nintendo has that can compress/decompress data onto these mini DVDs very well. for example the Resident Evil game has 9GB worth of data compressed onto the disk, and then I guess decompressed during play. Nintendo keeps very tight wraps on this technology though from what I understand.

having said that, i'm all for miniaturization of everything, well almost everything. and i'm still upset that the miniDisc didn't take off.