Sony, Panasonic teaming to create 300GB optical disk

[Pyromania]

The companies are jointly creating a new optical disk specification based on the existing technologies.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241176/Sony_Panasonic_teaming_to_create_300GB_optical_disk?taxonomyId=149

[Lurch]

This is getting a bit much. The amount of non Amiga stuff being posted here of late is insane. To me this is not Amiga.org anymore. Its more about adwords and search engine ranking.

Having been part of this forum for sometime now its sad how things are going. If I wanted to know about for example electric cars I would go to a electric car site.

As for this post how does this even relate to other OS's? Its hardware for a start.

I was sad when the site sold thats for sure.

But nevermind, there are other forums. A shame as amiga.org to me was home.

[spirantho]

There are currently 10 threads on the front page.
5 of them have nothing to do with Amigas.
All of those 5 have been started by the system administrators.

This worries me.

[NovaCoder]

I guess there's just not enough Amiga news to go around

On AmigaWorld.net they're only really interested in NG so Classic users are better off over on EAB.

[Duce]

Place is more unbearable now than it was in the C-USA days.

That really, really worries me.

[SysAdmin]

I would venture to say 300GB optical disks could be used on Amiga's too. We will work to keep Amiga.org 99% Amiga oriented like it usually is. Thanks for the feedback. If you are counting the Bing search results thread as not Amiga related then you would be wrong. That thread is about how Bing fails to show Amiga computers when you search Amiga using their image search. So that gives us only two threads that are not Amiga related on the front page.

[James2002]

I would venture to say 300GB optical disks could be used on Amiga's too.

I believe that cost is everything. If it reasonable I say yes. I don't  burn disk as much as I used to. I have usb hard-drive that holds all my info and games.

It almost the same story. I have blu-ray burner in my computer. I guess they want to change the process make the disks hold more data.

[whabang]

I've been a member of this forum for a _very_ long time and I've been visiting regularily since forever, and there has always been people posting about stuff unrelated to the Amiga.

While this is first and foremost an Amiga-forum, this is also an entire community of people interested in electronics, technology and new advances in general.

We had regular astronomy updates for a while (whatever happened to Blobrana anyway?) and enough wierd-ass discussions to set off an entire array of Brittish porn-filters.

This is Amiga.org. This is where we go to discuss interesting stuff with people we've been discussing with for a very long time. This will not change anytime soon, but let's face it - the ammount of Amiga-related topics is going down fast, and that means there will be more and more other stuff here.

The alternative would be that the forum died because there was too little news.

EDIT: Why would anyone need a 300 GB disc anyway? Isn't cloud storage the rage nowadays?

[jj]

I've been a member of this forum for a _very_ long time and I've been visiting regularily since forever, and there has always been people posting about stuff unrelated to the Amiga.
 
While this is first and foremost an Amiga-forum, this is also an entire community of people interested in electronics, technology and new advances in general.
 
We had regular astronomy updates for a while (whatever happened to Blobrana anyway?) and enough wierd-ass discussions to set off an entire array of Brittish porn-filters.
 
This is Amiga.org. This is where we go to discuss interesting stuff with people we've been discussing with for a very long time. This will not change anytime soon, but let's face it - the ammount of Amiga-related topics is going down fast, and that means there will be more and more other stuff here.
 
The alternative would be that the forum died because there was too little news.
 
EDIT: Why would anyone need a 300 GB disc anyway? Isn't cloud storage the rage nowadays?

 
I agree some of the best convos and people I have be-friended have been sharing our other passions.  I have been coming here for 13 years now.
 
I dont read and post as much as I used to , and neither do a lot of the older hands, but I have always loved that this is a community.  What brought us all here was Amiga, but you stay for the convos.  If it was all  about Amiga probably wouldnt have hung around so long

[nicholas]

I've been a member of this forum for a _very_ long time and I've been visiting regularily since forever, and there has always been people posting about stuff unrelated to the Amiga.

While this is first and foremost an Amiga-forum, this is also an entire community of people interested in electronics, technology and new advances in general.

We had regular astronomy updates for a while (whatever happened to Blobrana anyway?) and enough wierd-ass discussions to set off an entire array of Brittish porn-filters.

This is Amiga.org. This is where we go to discuss interesting stuff with people we've been discussing with for a very long time. This will not change anytime soon, but let's face it - the ammount of Amiga-related topics is going down fast, and that means there will be more and more other stuff here.

The alternative would be that the forum died because there was too little news.

EDIT: Why would anyone need a 300 GB disc anyway? Isn't cloud storage the rage nowadays?

+1

I've made lifelong real-life friends from this place.

It's never been common for threads to stay on topic for more than about three posts anyway.

[nicholas]

I guess there's just not enough Amiga news to go around

On AmigaWorld.net they're only really interested in NG so Classic users are better off over on EAB.

I have to admit EAB and A1K are much better these days for stuff about proper Amigas, AW.net for OS4 stuff and MZ.org for MorphOS.

[Hattig]

Storage devices were always big Amiga news, the fact that we've moved on to 300GB discs from Flopticals and Zips is just a sign of the times.

[B00tDisk]

"300gb by 2015!" uh, guys, I'll have a 512gb thumb drive by then...

anyway...

It does kind of remind me of ads for a Xetec CD-burner* in AmigaWorld - in January of '91 - cost was $3k.

I considered buying one but then it occurred to me that I'd have to buy a prohibitively expensive 030 card, RAM and SCSI controller for my A500.  650mb blank media for the things were...I wanna say $300?  $299?  Something like that.  

...

*=magneto-optical drive, I doubt disks made in it would be readable by anything today

[klx300r]

@ Pyromania

and..?? did someone get one set up in their miggy

[Zac67]

Usually, this kind of news about storage technology could be interesting but
- there are no details whatsoever on why this approach is different from others, or what it is supposed to be compatible with
- Sony is known for late and unwieldy developments and/or announcing products that don't surface
- Pioneer demonstrated a 400 GB BD (largely) in 2009
- Sony already announced a 1 TB disc several years ago