Blu-ray Discs Can Fit 128GB in New BDXL Format
A third and fourth layer can expand Blu-ray Disc capacity up to 128GB.
Having 50GB on a single disc helped give Blu-ray the edge as the optical format of the foreseeable future. Now that number gets bumped to 128GB in a new specification announced by the Blu-ray Disc Association.
The specifications for 128GB discs is called BDXL which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs. Write-once BDXL will come in 100GB and 128GB capacity discs, while rewritable ones will top out at 100GB. The discs reach these capacities by incorporating three to four recordable layers.
The Blu-ray Disc Association also announced another new standard, the Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD), which incorporates a single BD-ROM layer and a single BD-RE layer. This will allow the user to view, but not overwrite, critical published data while providing the flexibility to include relevant personal data on the same physical disc.
Because both BDXL and IH-BD are specially designed formats with specific market segments in mind, newly-designed hardware is required to play back or record BDXL or IH-BD media. However, because the new media specifications are extensions of current Blu-ray Disc technology, future BDXL and IH-BD devices can be designed to support existing 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray Discs.

it's cheaper to buy a usb hard drive and move data everywhere.
Even backups with actual hard drives it's possible with the hdd's prices dropping.
it's cheaper to buy a usb hard drive and move data everywhere.
Even backups with actual hard drives it's possible with the hdd's prices dropping.
but sadly this isn't targeted towards the media consumer...
I can't wait to see what the gaming industry will have in store for blu-ray when BD-ROMs become more standard in computers/laptops.
I don't think the human eye can tell the difference once you go beyond full HD unless your tv is 300 inches and you are watching it 10cm away.
Which will not fly because there are other cheaper alternatives.
Are you being serious? My "Full HD" PC monitor isn't even half the size of my television, so I can definitely tell the difference when the image is stretched out an extra 40" or so. Maybe your eyes can't see beyond 1080p on a 50"-60" screen, but mine definitely can.
....the expansiveness of gaming environments and characters could be amazing not to mention the lengths of games with 128GB of data to store it"
we were able to get by on a 100MB cart for the N64 and still pushed out a fair few lengthy titles, the major factor is rarely ever the size of the media but the dedication and skill of the development team, in fact if i were a betting man i think most devs aren't really coming close to using all of a standard blue ray disc effectively, mostly it's just HD cut scenes that eat up the space
LTO 3 tape 400gb uncompressed - $23
LTO 4 tape 800gb uncompressed - $29
But the drive for those are really expensive so how about...
2 TB external usb hard drive $159.
The only person who would be interested in this bluray tech would be my last boss who wanted me to burn a terabyte of data onto standard CDs for a "backup" and refused to buy any other solution. Oh yeah He was Dutch too.
It all depends on how far away you're sitting from the screen.
My pc monitor is 26", and is 1920x1200. I sit about 1.5' away from my screen.
My tv is 48", but i sit a good 3 metres away, so any increase in resolution wouldn't make a difference to me.
Sure a 40" screen at a couple feet away will look awful at 1080p, but that isn't a realistic living room scenario, people sit 2 - 4 metres away from their tvs, so you need a massive screen to be able to discern the difference between image quality past 1080p.
This is what wrw was talking about.
More space will not bring more lenght to games. Most of supernes games have a lenght way beyond todays games.
Even AAA games in this gen hardly surpass 6-8 hours of actual play unless is a adventure gamer(from nintendo most of the times), jrpg or western rpg. The rest just try to justify the minimal hous with "multiplayer" wich some people don't like.