New Sony laser technology 20 times better than blu ray

http://www.examiner.com/game-news-in-national/new-sony-laser-technology-20-times-better-than-blu-ray

There's a new type of laser technology which Sony are experimenting with. Apparently, it offers 20 times the capacity of Blu-ray discs. It's very interesting, and I look forward to seeing it in the upcoming PS4 (where I am sure it will be featured).

Sony shouldn't be investing on such matters in my opinion. :P
Soon everything will be virtual... you'll have internet where ever you go all around the world.
The future is virtual videos saved or streamed from their website.
We barley use CDs in our house nowadays. We just log in to itunes, buy an HD movie, and stream it onto TV...
so yeah.. not so wise in my opinion. They should be focusing on enlarging their media store by adding more Movies, TV shows... etc. etc. The PS3 could act as the receiver where all the content is downloaded/streamed.

Just an opinion :)

karkooshy wrote:Sony shouldn't be investing on such matters in my opinion. :P
Soon everything will be virtual... you'll have internet where ever you go all around the world.
The future is virtual videos saved or streamed from their website.
We barley use CDs in our house nowadays. We just log in to itunes, buy an HD movie, and stream it onto TV...
so yeah.. not so wise in my opinion. They should be focusing on enlarging their media store by adding more Movies, TV shows... etc. etc. The PS3 could act as the receiver where all the content is downloaded/streamed.

Just an opinion :)

An opinion I hope not everyone shares. You may call me paranoid, but I've never liked having possessions that I've payed for exclusively online (as I refer to it, "in the cloud") as things can get lost in the cloud, leaving you without said item. When you have a physical copy of it, you can protect it, hold it, bring it with you, and it can't get lost unless the item is physically damaged. There's also the fact that data streaming is reliant on having a connection, whereas you can use a physical copy without any connection to the internet unless it requires an online validation before it allows usage.

The best thing is to be able to have both, so they can serve as backups for each other. If the physical copy of the media is damaged, it can be replaced using a saved copy on a hard drive or database, and likewise you can copy the physical copy back into the computer or database if it were to somehow be corrupted or lost.

Regarding the use of these discs, this would be quite the technological achievement. Being able to store half a terabyte on a disc no larger than a bluray disc would unlock some amazing prospects. You could back up entire multi-terabyte computer systems onto just a few of them, extremely large amounts of media could be stored on just one of them(such as entire Television series or entire film sagas), they may allow video games to be much larger and better optimized, and even more possibilities for them exist.

extremely large amounts of media could be stored on just one of them(such as entire Television series or entire film sagas),

Really? That sounds really impressive. I'm looking forward to the future of gaming now.

Sweet Mercy wrote:

extremely large amounts of media could be stored on just one of them(such as entire Television series or entire film sagas),

Really? That sounds really impressive. I'm looking forward to the future of gaming now.

I'm excited about that, and I also like the prospect of being able to buy a TV series disc set which consists of only one disc instead of having to get multiple boxes of up to four DVDs.

Do games or movies really need that much space though?

The Freedom Fighter wrote:Do games or movies really need that much space though?

Applied to something like an RPG, the effects would be staggering. Hopefully the new space will inspire Sony to create more RPG exclusives.