TDK Makes 200GB Blu-ray Discs, Too Bad Nobody Can Play Them

[wraggster]

Yes, TDK, who said they were going to make 200GB discs, went and made 200GB discs. Who'da thunk it? Well, unfortunately for everyone on the planet, there isn't any drive or player out right now that can read 200GB discs. Oh well.

The 200GB monster is single sided, but has six layers with 33.333333333 (continuing) GB on each layer. First 100GB discs, now 200GB discs. What's next, TDK?

[tallica]

:O Lol you could use an rw as a an extra hard drive! They must be quite fragile though, are they?

[Video_freak]

This would be awesome as a HD... :rolleyes:

[muffinman]

lets wait for the rw versions to come out.

[xiringu]

we are not seeing these for years. companies don't want us to buy a couple of DVD-R a year. it's just not good for their business.

just remember that we are still stuck with the old CDs, and that 8Gb DVDs are even rare...

it's always what they want us to use, and not what we want to use... snifff :(

[stotheamuel]

HAHAHAH when i said it has a theoretical capacity of 200GB i was right..... BOO YAH

And some one was like.. well a cd has a theoretical capacity of 3 gb.... IN HIS FACE


they are gunna keep getting bigger... and hey it is the most portable of all HD (less than 1/5 size of dvd)... and the cheapest memory out there.. now when they are re-writable.. itll be kick ass

[ExcruciationX]

HAHAHAH when i said it has a theoretical capacity of 200GB i was right..... BOO YAH

And some one was like.. well a cd has a theoretical capacity of 3 gb.... IN HIS FACE


they are gunna keep getting bigger... and hey it is the most portable of all HD (less than 1/5 size of dvd)... and the cheapest memory out there.. now when they are re-writable.. itll be kick ass...However, they would be a little slower than a harddrive. Six layers?!? That would be a thick disc!

[V3N0M]

Well Maby A Google plex well be next lol. For those who don't know what that is its a 1 with a hundered zeros after it.

[irondirgible]

Well Maby A Google plex well be next lol. For those who don't know what that is its a 1 with a hundered zeros after it.

"Google" is search engine and software company
A "googol" is 1.0*10^100, or a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
A "googolplex" is 1.0*10^(10^100), or a 1 followed by a googol zeros.

There will never, ever be a disc capable of holding one googolplex gigabytes of data. If that ever occurs, you may come to my house and cut my balls off.

[stotheamuel]

LMAO... if there was ... thought would mean.. on one disk or hardrive.. there would have to be more GB of storage than there are known particles in the universe....

ps... heres some stuff on how mind blowing googol plexi are

"How big is a googolplex? A googol is greater than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, which has been variously estimated from 1072 up to 1087. Since a googolplex is one followed by a googol zeroes, it would not be possible to wòite down or store a googolplex in decimal notation, even if all the matter in the known universe were converted into paper and ink or disk drives.

Thinking of this another way, consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, 1-point font. TeX 1pt font is .3514598mm per digit, which means it would take about meters to write in one point font. The known universe is estimated at meters in diameter, which means the distance to write the digits would be about times the diameter of the known universe. The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around times the age of the universe to write down a googolplex"


hahaha but i do here there is going to be a black-ray disk with graham's number gigibytes

[Metroid_Fan]

Yes, TDK, who said they were going to make 200GB discs, went and made 200GB discs. Who'da thunk it? Well, unfortunately for everyone on the planet, there isn't any drive or player out right now that can read 200GB discs. Oh well.

The 200GB monster is single sided, but has six layers with 33.333333333 (continuing) GB on each layer. First 100GB discs, now 200GB discs. What's next, TDK?


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There is also a blu-ray disc player a blu-ray pc and proberly more....

[Accordion]

pay attention
due to firmware limitations and lack of communication none of the current players are capable of playing discs over 50GB

stop trying to be smug

[stotheamuel]

who me?? lol you don't think there will be a player???

wow.. they made those for nothing

[JD/]

lol how much would a 200gb disc be?

[mavsman4457]

LMAO... if there was ... thought would mean.. on one disk or hardrive.. there would have to be more GB of storage than there are known particles in the universe....

ps... heres some stuff on how mind blowing googol plexi are

"How big is a googolplex? A googol is greater than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, which has been variously estimated from 1072 up to 1087. Since a googolplex is one followed by a googol zeroes, it would not be possible to write down or store a googolplex in decimal notation, even if all the matter in the known universe were converted into paper and ink or disk drives.

Thinking of this another way, consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, 1-point font. TeX 1pt font is .3514598mm per digit, which means it would take about meters to write in one point font. The known universe is estimated at meters in diameter, which means the distance to write the digits would be about times the diameter of the known universe. The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around times the age of the universe to write down a googolplex"


hahaha but i do here there is going to be a black-ray disk with graham's number gigibytes

Thanks for the information. That's very interesting. Apperently my ENTIRE second grade class was wrong when they said a "google plux" is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. I don't know who to believe.

[SteveV2]

200gig, that's very impressive!

Having all your divx collection on a few discs, nice :)

[Accordion]

200GB is a lot to me
i only have a 60GB hard drive in my G4 mac…(my family G5 is connected to three 600GB drives though…)
and my current disk space is 4.5GB (shocking)
mostly full of music soits worth it.