Blue Laser DVDs

[AND1]

Has anyone heard about these. "Blue-laser light, with a shorter wavelength than the red variety, can be honed into a finer beam, enabling it to read and write more bits of information on a given area of disc space." What does this mean? That in about a year or so when these come out we'll be able to write about 27 GB of info on one DVD (one side!!). You'll be able to backup about 3 DVD movies in digital DVD quality on one disc. Any Comments??? Heres the website: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-839895.html

[cnknudson]

yeah...such a shame that all the current "stand-alone" DVD players will not be able to accommodate such a disk.

-CNK

[Arwen Goenitz]

Perhaps common sense will prevail and they will finally begin using MPEG4 instead of 2.
Then the space required for a movie will decrease and the larger capacity will finally do away with double layered and double sided discs.
No more flippin it over...no more slight pause...glorious!

[kinneera]

Common sense is a very subjective thing. To me it would involve improving media so that less video data has to be thrown out, and not changing to MPEG4. But to each his own.

[Arwen Goenitz]

Thats what I meant.
MPEG4 is an improvement over 2.
If more capable video compression methods were not the answer to every new generation of video disc advancement...we would still be using MPEG1.

[kinneera]

Again, whether MPEG4 is an improvement is a strictly subjective evaluation. As a lossy compression method which throws out even more video information, it is most definitely not the direction I want to see the technology go, even if it is good from an Internet distribution perspective. What I want to see is better physical media that can hold more data with better fidelity (i.e. less compression).