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adzman Mega user Joined: 2007-04-30 Posts: 160
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 2008-01-18 13:13 |
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Flash drives are NOT a conceivable alternative to optical disks:
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| Typical overall file transfer speeds are about 3 Mbit/s. The highest current overall file transfer speeds are about 10-30 Mbit/s. Older, "full speed" 12 Mbit/s devices are limited to a maximum of about 1 Mbit/s. |
while blu-ray:
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1x@36 Mbit/s
2x@72 Mbit/s
4x@144 Mbit/s
6x@216 Mbit/s |
Minimum data transfer for blu-ray movies is 30.24 Mbit/s while the maximum is 48 Mbit/s. To conserve space on the disk I'm sure.
And optical disks aren't as delicate as everybody seems to think they are. So they can be scratched. So what? A magnet won't destroy the data on it like it would a flash drive.
And HDi is one of the reasons for this entire format war. I doubt the blu-ray companies will win just to adopt the thing they fought against.
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Kal-el Guest
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| 2008-01-18 17:08 |
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And what was the transfer speed of USB 1.0? The first CD-rom drive? The first DVD-rom drive? Anyways my point is that it's not set in stone. Just like they can develop drives that read/write faster, I'm sure they can and probably are developing Flash drives that can do the same.
From working in a Blockbusters I can't count the number of scratched, melted, or otherwise damaged discs I've seen.
Protection against magnets could be built into the flash drive's casing.
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adzman Mega user Joined: 2007-04-30 Posts: 160
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| 2008-01-20 05:17 |
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Really the only thing I don't want to happen is them going completely virtual with it. I like having a physical copy of something I buy. Makes me feel a lot better when my money actually gets me something instead of just switching some bits.
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