Titus jones I am certain that game is well over 40gb by now

Titus jones

I am certain that game is well over 40gb by now. Admittedly the games that are 40gb are far and few between but they do exist. doing a quick Google, Age of Conan is about 30gb. Star Wars The force unleashed is also about 30gb. I think that would be a terrible way to back up that much information. All it would take is one scratch for the situation to turn into a nightmare if you ever need the data. On top of that, it would be painfully slow. None of those provide video content to 99, 5% of humanity. Id say no to that. I think it comes after DVD. I had no idea anyone actually buys Blu-Ray. For home entertainment, yes. For reusable/disposable backup media, no. Not in every part of the world. in third world country like mine bandwidth and affordable internet are rare. a Canadian for about half the American market, maybe, but I think for the rest youll have a hard time persuading them to buy something they cant hold onto and reuse. A service like Netflix is one thing, but not Pay-per-view type formats, not for the projected middle class one sees resulting from the situation today. they could dump entire collections of stuff onto one of these and market it the Rocky collection, Star Wars, etc. with every piece of extra data on the entire project stuffed on there for shits. Archival data type stuff. I dunno, just seems like the American infrastructure for streaming on the grand scale is a squabble and wont physically/capably be there for a while yet, tho well expend twice the effort and oil on substitutes like these. More than just hollywood movies can be put on optical media. You gonna back up your hard drive to hulu? Despite the prevalent opinion in this thread optical media has more uses than movies. Its still relevant for off-site backup, as is tape media. I like the backup idea, but I dont like the 10 year shelf-life. That too could shift fairly naturally to online locations or cloud. Dropbox etc can only expand. True, it could and probably eventually will. To this day even Google uses tape backup though. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. I thought they used clouds, which are made up of water. Clouds are made of hydrogen, you dolt. Thats why theyre trying to make hydrogen-powered cars. Everything is moving to the cloud. Oh wait nevermind I just looked it up on wikipedia and we were both wrong, clouds arent made of water or hydrogen, theyre made of ice! Imagine that, a future where we store our data with ice! Now I understand why everyones so afraid of global warming. Currently cheap harddisks in a RAID are cheaper than tape libraries. And RAIDs are online, while tape libraries are offline and very slow. 6TB on a single disc?! Holy vaginoli! Or about 3 seconds in ultra super 3D HD. All first up here at The Bits today, our own Russell Hammond has once again updated the Release Dates Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and Video Game cover art and pre-order links. As always, a portion of ANYTHING you order from Amazon after clicking to them through our links goes to help support our work here at the site and we REALLY do appreciate it.