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Fuzzy Logic Today's Blu-ray almost obsolete as Pioneer demos 400GB disc!
Fuzzy Logic Today's Blu-ray almost obsolete as Pioneer demos 400GB disc! | Today's Blu-ray almost obsolete as Pioneer demos 400GB disc! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 08 July 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 It does make me wonder though how long it will be before flash memory companies figure out how to store 400GB on a few chips. Featured Whitepaper
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Pioneer says it will “present the details of this research at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 (ISOM/ODS2008)” event in Hawaii from July 13. Maybe this technology is what the next Xbox is waiting for – a Blu-ray compatible technology that gives 400GB of space to boot! The next consoles aren’t due until around 2010, so the chances are strong this is the kind of technology we’ll see included as standard, leaving today’s Blu-ray discs to bite 16-layers (or more!) of dust. Still I think SSDs are strong in our future, too. Ashes to ashes, plastic dust to plastic dust. (Albeit much harder to scratch these days) optical technologies? Methinks it might well be SSDs or bust! Or will we be in holographic storage territory by then? |
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