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Blue Laser DVD's in your Mac?
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Friends of mine bought mini-disc, but have since sold them in favour of an ipod and CD/MP3 players. Mini-disc players are still very expencive.
I know the GD ROM was only for the DC, but now that the DC is defunct (lives on in the hearts of the few) it is a lost format. Also I believe it reads from the outside in? I could be wrong.
Bring on BluRay DVD's, I heard about them a while back but nothing since, until now.
I wouldn't think so, for a couple of reasons; the data is actualy on an aluminum sheet sandwiched by the plastic, and the particular UV they would use wouldnt necessarily have to be a very energetic (extremely short, and more damaging) wavelength
IIRR, it's the Iomega Click drive.. i have the sample they gave out at the Comdex show... i think they changed the name though.
I think that's a BAD reason. If they are going to be pioneers in this BlueRay technology, they have to come up with a great reason or marketing angle to really excite and convice everyone that it's a must. Adopting it just for the sake of being the first kid on the block, doesn't cut it.
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RowerOriginally posted by Rower_CPU
Yup. Happens every time.
I'm always a bit annoyed when using that company's name it gets "filtered"; makes me feel a bit guilty of doing something wrong... any chance the obscenity filter could make an exception for the full name of the company (shouldn't cause any harm unless those trying to avoid the filter start using that full name as a euphemism for the internal word.)
Wow, that's pretty hard to write without using the word(s) in question
MD-Data did once exist, never caught on. I wish it had.
A cool format that never seemed to go anywhere was Dataplay -- looks like you can still get the discs online, but are there any players on the market?
www.dataplay.com
They're little discs that look like a MiniDisc, but are the size of a QUARTER! They can be double-sided, and hold 250MB per side. If mass-produced and in wide use, they would be cheap as heck. Talk about killer format for tiny electronics!
What was this thread about, again?
edit: Oooh, the Dataplay discs aren't re-writable. BUMMER.
A cool format that never seemed to go anywhere was Dataplay -- looks like you can still get the discs online, but are there any players on the market?
www.dataplay.com
They're little discs that look like a MiniDisc, but are the size of a QUARTER! They can be double-sided, and hold 250MB per side. If mass-produced and in wide use, they would be cheap as heck. Talk about killer format for tiny electronics!
What was this thread about, again?
edit: Oooh, the Dataplay discs aren't re-writable. BUMMER.
eclipse525 didn't say there were no good reasons, he said adopting it first for no other reason than adopting it first is not a good reason.
I agree w/your "a" reason, but your "b" reason is pretty weak. DVDs are, and Blueray will be, a format used to deliver the final product. They will not be a standard in post/production. The HD you get at home is a far cry from the HD used to create what you are watching. 1 hour of broadcast quality HD can eat up half a terabyte of space. And there are some very cutting edge cameras, target towards filmmakers, that stream the image straight from the camera into harddrives that require 500gigs for just 45 minutes of recording. So having an optical disc that can hold 20gig isn't going to help out much.
Anyway, in post/production HD is already here, has been for a few years, and FCP supports it.
Lethal
Originally posted by legion
Rower
I'm always a bit annoyed when using that company's name it gets "filtered"; makes me feel a bit guilty of doing something wrong... any chance the obscenity filter could make an exception for the full name of the company (shouldn't cause any harm unless those trying to avoid the filter start using that full name as a euphemism for the internal word.)
Wow, that's pretty hard to write without using the word(s) in question
Unfortunately, the word censor can't be that specific, and turning off compound words containing that word would allow a bunch of words through the filter. Sorry.