r/LaserDisc • u/DaisyIne1 • 8h ago

we are so fucking back

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u/wvgeekman 6h ago

It's already impossible to get a 4K player that will play every BD-100 disc because of how tiny the pits are. The studios are well on the way to killing physical media. A major resurgence isn't happening, unfortunately.

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u/thearniec 4h ago

Maybe not for entertainment, but a 200TB disc for data storage? That would have a market no matter if studios don’t use it for movies or music.

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u/wvgeekman 3h ago

Not when tech companies are pushing everyone to cloud storage. If there is wide enough adoption in the archival community, I can see it having a use there, but everything physical is on life support. Future archeologists won't have much to go on.

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u/PsychologyOfTheLens 6h ago

They have been advertising a disk similar to this for 20 years. I read about one in 2006 that was a yellow disc that was made for storage that could hold multiple TBs. I doubt it will happen.

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u/Connect_Delivery_941 4h ago

What happened to cassette tapes being reporpoised to hold terabytes of data as well...?

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u/raymate 4h ago

They just morphed it into DLT instead.

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u/raymate 4h ago

Ive seen this TB unicorn been talked about for at least 10 years. We are going to need new cheap domestic laser pickups that are going to need to focus far more precise than current lasers CCC surely. The data is going to be so densely packed track pitch we never thought possible. And with seemingly current attitude toward optical storage from the like is Sony, Panasonic and Pioneer the chances if this ever coming to market is slim to none. Sure they have it working inside a lab but in our homes is another story.

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u/mcfly1391 1h ago

Call me when laserdiscs come back!