[freedumb2003]

The Age of Aquarius — great song.

[Clock King]

300 movies or just one super HD movie?

[ChetNavVet]

This reminds me of what we in the navy used to call ‘tri state electronics’ (less than straightforward) and ‘iron core memory’(Density was to low)
Neither of which really went anywhere.

Methinks this new thing is viable..

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Soon, I’ll have all the information I need at my fingertips in one disk...except for 0’s birth certificate. Mwoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I remember back in the 80’s my roomate bought a CD player and I didn’t even know what it was. I was afraid to even touch it. LOL!

[IrishCatholic]

“Zero is having a bad day. He lost the entire 13th Century.” (Turning to computer)”Didn’t you Zero. Say Hello to Jonathan E. Jonathan is a great Rollerball player...”

[MrEdd]

Still leaves disks as an obsolete and bulky storage medium.

Two Terabyte SD cards (The new XDHC standard) were announced at the CES show in January,

Will a CD drive fit in these little netbooks and tablet PCs?

Can they make drives with moving parts ad long lasting, low power consuming, and low heat generating as the competing flash drive technology?

Does the market not tend to move towards one solution for all machines in spite of the best mechanizations of proprietary equipment makers?

[Right Wing Assault]

I wonder what a disc with 300 movies on it would cost. Might not be able to sell many of those.

You could have "Friday the 13th 1" to "Friday the 13th 300" all on one, though.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Crystals are where it's at.

[Tanniker Smith]

If commercialized, the technology could allow a single disc to hold as many as 300 movies or 250,000 songs.

And cost $4,000.

... or it'll sell for 99 cents if it only contains imitation Bruce Lee films and the lesser works of Roger Corman.

[SamAdams76]

Since 1982 or thereabouts, an early CD of "Dark Side Of The Moon" has been playing non-stop on a continuous loop in a Philips Sony showroom (I think in Southern California). Purportedly this exercise was intended to show the durability of the compact disc which was introduced to the public that same year. One Philips-Sony spokesman said at the time that you could play a compact disc a million times and it would sound as good on its millionth spin as it did on its first.

Since the running time of this album is about 42 minutes, this means that that CD has now been played 337,421 times now - apparently without any loss of fidelity whatsoever. "The Great Gig In The Sky" sounds as crystal clear as it did on it's first spin some 27 years ago!