Toward next-generation optical disks

[Bombastinator]

58 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Yeah, but fortunately this exists

https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html

sadly it's paid software but it does work. I was able to play my entire blu ray library (admittedly not huge but still) with the demo version, I didn't buy it because I wasn't going to use it often anyway.

Yeah there was paid stuff when I tried mine that worked too.  It cost a hundred bucks though and I didn’t want to watch blu-ray that bad.  There was a way to do it for free as well but it was insanely complex to the point I couldn’t make it work.

Edited February 28, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Belgarathian]

700 TB... Just in time for CoD 10.

[straight_stewie]

On 2/26/2021 at 9:12 AM, AbydosOne said:

That is... a sentence... even my EE background is having trouble parsing all that at once...

You're supposed to have trouble understanding it. Researchers working for businesses often have to write their whitepapers and especially their patents in such a way that they are purposefully difficult to read so that other businesses will have trouble parsing it. Technobabble is real, and it is everywhere.

As best I can tell from the statements, they are using the "glass" on the surface of the disk as a lens to change the wavelength of the light that the laser is emitting. This would let you use a cheaper laser in the equipment but get the benefits of a much more high quality laser.
 

[Fnige]

On 2/27/2021 at 5:34 AM, TVwazhere said:

Let that sink in

Hell no. It robbed me the last time

[X-System]

15 hours ago, Belgarathian said:

700 TB... Just in time for CoD 10.

But still no enough for Flight Simulator 2020 with its 2 petabytes (world map datas)

[Loote]

1 hour ago, X-System said:

But still no enough for Flight Simulator 2020 with its 2 petabytes (world map datas)

3 Disk box is not that bad though.
Sounds like a great backup solution, if the cost reach ends up comparable to tapes I can see it being very useful(offering random reads/writes, even if it/s 2 operations/second). Media distribution should abandon plastic disks already, but yeah, when you just need to keep the files it can be environmentally positive.
Though with such density I wonder how painful a scratch could be, if the disk would degrade, what speeds would the user get and how expensive the disk drive would end up.  I guess post another news when more is known.

[The Torrent]

i dont think optical disks will ever come back now.