1000GB Blu-ray Recorder Announced By Hitachi

[AzraelDarkangel]

http://www.smarthousenews.com.au/Computing/Storage?Article=/Computing/Storage/A3X2P7W8

Hitachi has revealed a 1 Terrabyte Blu-ray recorder at the Harvey Norman retail conference being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

Hitachi is set to launch a 1000GB Blu-ray recorder. The product that was shown at the Harvey Norman Conference being held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. According to Hitachi Australia the device will go on sale in 2008 for around $2,000.

[theteamaqua]

so a single disc of Blu-RAy holds 1000GB or what?

[Shintai]

A single disc is 100GB tops. Either its 10 discs or someone added an extra 0 for fun.

[Metroid]

As far as I know Blue Ray can hold at maximum of 8 layers or meaning 8 X 25 GB = 200 GB but till there will be many things to rethink about the technology. Well 1000 GB or 1 Tera bytes will be a recorder and not a single disk with many layers. Although the price will be expensive as it always is and 2008 is a long run to go. The price will drop by that time.

[Vassili]

I think it just has a harddrive of 1TB and it can record on a Blu-ray disc (with it's capacity of around 25-50 GB?).

[Metroid]

I think it just has a harddrive of 1TB and it can record on a Blu-ray disc (with it's capacity of around 25-50 GB?).

Yes the same as I think. They did not say many things that I wanted to know. :(

[Shintai]

I think it just has a harddrive of 1TB and it can record on a Blu-ray disc (with it's capacity of around 25-50 GB?).

Thats actually an extremely likely scenario. Specially considering their new 1TB drives-

[Frank M]

*still waiting for holographic discs to get mainstream*
*currently 300GB discs available, up to 1.6TB planned*
* :slobber: *

[Kingcarcas]

Last i heard they were going for 200GB Blu-ray disc, so something is up here....

[madcho]

*still waiting for holographic discs to get mainstream*
*currently 300GB discs available, up to 1.6TB planned*
* :slobber: *


i prefer waiting for holographic hard drives :D

[Metroid]

i prefer waiting for holographic hard drives :D

I like to dream too :p:

[Frank M]

i prefer waiting for holographic hard drives :D

Why, are they in development?

OTOH, holodiscs have been officially launched earlier this year with 300GB/disc
capacities, but they are so expensive now that only film studios bought them...

[Serra]

It could be outside the official Blu-Ray spec, but still using things like the same laser wavelength and maintaining backwards compatibility with current Blu-Ray discs. That's the closest I can think of, because I believe the poster who stated that 200GB was the max the spec allows is right about that.

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

sounds like a set top box that can store 1000GB of BluRay quality video(HDD) and can burn to BD-R :toast:

[ak_47_boy]

And how long will this take to burn... a few months.
Anything over 30gb is useless for 99.999% of consumers. Seriously 30gb is massive, i don't want 400 movies on one disc.

[dinos22]

WTH since when do Australians give major announcement on tech :confused: :D

[IluvIntel]

WTH since when do Australians give major announcement on tech :confused: :D

Hehe, you mean " When do Australians give major announcement on tech?" :)

since the "arse end of the world" is no more for us... some time back in the 80s imo hehehe:D :banana:

[dinos22]

Hehe, you mean " When do Australians give major announcement on tech?" :)

since the "arse end of the world" is no more for us... some time back in the 80s imo hehehe:D :banana:

:rotf:

[merlot_14]

HOLY S***, it is pretty useless