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Samsung stops releasing Blu-ray players in the US
Did you notice that Samsung hasn't made a peep about Blu-ray players at CES or other recent trade shows? There's a good reason for it: the company is exiting the category in the US. Samsung told Forbes and CNET that it's no longer introducing Blu-ray players for the country. It didn't provide reasoning for the move, but Forbes sources reportedly said that Samsung had scrapped a high-end model that was supposed to arrive later in 2019.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:00AM (3 children)
I would love to purchase optical media again. But it should be blank holographic media with a capacity around 1 petabyte (1,000 terabytes) or preferably 1 exabyte (1 million terabytes).
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:32AM (2 children)
Is there any particular reason you want optical media? I want reliable large capacity storage, but I don't care for optical media and as the optical aspect (and the necessary mechanical reader) gets in the way of reliability.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:42AM
It would be interesting to see the 12 cm format preserved yet again, and possibly see drives that read everything from CD, DVD, Blu-ray/XL, to new-fangled disc. I'm not saying that a holographic storage medium would necessarily be engineered that way, or even spin at all. But it is, by definition, "optical" storage.
Define "reliability". M-DISC is supposedly much more reliable than normal DVDs and Blu-rays. A new technology could be inherently more reliable. Or it might be worth it to construct the disc out of better materials depending on the $/TB.
If the medium was rewritable and had an absurd capacity, it could be packaged as a hard drive replacement instead of a tray-loaded disc.
Here are some candidates [soylentnews.org]. If we do end up with a spinning optical disc with petabytes or exabytes of storage, we might be able to forgive some inconveniences.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:19AM
Where are the holographic data cubes? Conceivably, if the media doesn't move it should be more stable & reliable than the spinning discs we're currently stuck with. Is somebody in big data, or worse, big media blocking the technology the way big oil did electric motors for so long?