Sharp to Introduce 100GB Triple-Layer Blu-ray Disc Media

HardOCP ^ | Friday July 16, 2010 2:12 PM (CST) | Steve

[Marine_Uncle]

If you touch it do you cut your finger?

[Still Thinking]

The magnetic disk invented by IBM in the early-1950s contained 100 concentric tracks on each side. Each track stored 500 alphanumeric characters, yielding a total storage capacity of 5 million characters.

Must have been Pentium based.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the HDTV list!
Special thanks to Ernest_at_the_beach for his ping...

HDTV pings!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...not only that, but it says the “illustration is a schematic representation.”

Could have fooled me. Those are clearly SEMs of the edge of a real disk. And that is definitely a photograph of a real disk.

[Right Wing Assault]

And I thought I was cool when I bought my 300 baud modem. Still have it just in case.

[Still Thinking]

Pretty soon we’ll have a CD that can contain the contents of an entire Congressional Bill.

Nah, corruption and stupidity will just continue to expand faster than technical capabilities. It's like trying to make a hard drive big enough or a processor fast enough so Windows won't use it all up. ;-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Is there a market for this?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Intel’s fifth-generation microarchitecture, the P5, was first released under the Pentium brand on March 22, 1993.

[Still Thinking]

Dude. Read my post again, and concentrate VERY hard, till you get the joke. Meanwhile, I’ll work on telling better jokes.

(Hint: take another look at the stuff I bolded in the post responded to)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Duh,...someone dropped some zeros.

[antiRepublicrat]

Wow, a touch over 11 minutes of uncompressed 1080p24 video, with no audio.