Originally posted by: cubby1223
LG has had drives like that for a couple years now, on par cost-wise with the rest of the dvd burners. But I do not think we even have 16x dvd-r discs out, I don't see them going up to 24x any time soon. As for HD DVD & Blu-ray, I don't see those available soon either, I see them being delayed much further because they seem to want to make sure their content protection is 100% secure before they release it - which as we know is probably not possible.
...until something like holographic storage
Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
How much faster do you think Blu-ray and HD-DVD will be? Will the quality of blanks improve so much that we'll get past the physical limitations that have stalled the burning speeds of current optical media? I think optical drives are pretty much tapped out and we won't see anything revolutionary in storage again until something like holographic storage starts hitting the market.
Lethal