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Maybe It's Time to Think 'Terabyte'

You've heard of the HD-DVD standard with 30GB and Blu-Ray and with 50GB of storage. Some people, apparently, think that's not going to be enough. Information has already surfaced regarding the Mempile TeraDisc with a capacity of 1 TB (Terabyte). It looks as though the first wave of discs should range from 500-600GB (per disc), with the ultimate goal of having 5 TB per disc. For the love of God, that's 5000 GBs, who the hell needs that much?

These new discs are naturally typical DVD size and use an optical technology, which is compatible with the existing DVD infrastructure. The medium should will work with drives that are fully backwards compatible with DVD and HD-DVD, and probably Blu-Ray.

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OldSchoolGamer6988d ago

Lol you both about to get betamax'ed. This and Digital downloading just became king.

Keyser6988d ago

The technology isn't even supposed to hit the market till 2010. The players for these will be...just a bit expensive. (sarcasm) Blu-ray technology existed in 2004 but didn't hit the market till...well you already know and it still hasn't caught on to the point of over throwing dvd.

When this catches on it probably will be incorporated in our Xbox 720's and our PS4 as they push to be next-gen. Just a guess based on how everything else has rolled out...

r10006988d ago

Yea whatever.... WHO IN THE WORLD NEEDS THAT KIND OF SPACE....

This will not matter when it comes to movie/games.... I doubt this will affect the normal consumer... this may be useful for big corporations, and the private and government sector....

God of Gaming6988d ago

At one time (1980s) people were saying 100 MB Hard Drives!! Who needs that much space! Tech Evolves.. one day you will be saying ONLY ONE TERABYTE.. thats so small.

power0919996988d ago

I cannot agree with you more.

I used to sell computers when I was in High School. It is sad to say but there was even a point in time where we didn't need 100MB. That was "more space than we would ever need".

We are finding new ways to utilize this "space" so it's natural that we require more and more.

1TB sounds like a lot right now (and it is). But I GUARANTEE that in about 5 - 10 years we will be saying man we will never use a Gigaflop (or whatever the next step in storage terminology will be).

God of Gaming6988d ago

The Glory days of one format taking over the industry are gone. Nothing will be as big as VHS, CD or DVDs ever again as far as actual Media. They will keep 1up ing eachother. I think digital downloading will be the only thing that has a chance at dominating in the future.

techie6988d ago

These Holographic discs have been in production for over 5 years. They are however very hard to produce (this will change), expensive...and the killer is that the laser they need to read them is very hard to make for a consumer price. This will all change of course...but maybe in a couple of years.

gta_cb6988d ago

ya never know maybe Sony AND MS will use these discs with there next consoles they make :P

but serisouly thats HUGE! i have a 200GB HDD and another 250GB HDD, i have already filled up about 200GB but that has taken me a long time... and yet i could fit everything onto 1 of these discs and yet it would be only half full... or in other cases less! :-O

bootsielon6988d ago (Edited 6988d ago )

Digital distribution is bottlenecked by peoples will to do it, by broadband penetration, but especially, broadband speed.

Then there's not much commercial support for this format. Besides, is it not very expensive compared to Blu-ray and HD-DVD? No? Didn't think so.

Besides, Colossal Storate already announced 1.1 Petabyte discs to be commercially available by 2009, so these discs will get squeezed by blu-ray and colossal discs.

ben hates you6988d ago

when will we be using a yottabyte of storage for everything {oneseptillionbytes}

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Top Racers Need Top Gear – Introducing the Forza Horizon 6 Limited Edition Controller and Headset

Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."

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Killer2020UK25d ago

Oh my, that is one gaudy design

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EasySMX D05 review

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6951d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger51d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard50d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer51d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee51d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger51d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33651d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee51d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k451d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33651d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher50d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3451d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger51d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!