Paper DVDs on the horizon
04-20-04, 11:24 AM
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Paper DVDs on the horizon
Paper DVDs on the horizon
A paper disc that can hold up to five times more data than current DVDs has been developed by Sony and another Japanese company.
The disc is 51% paper and could offer foolproof security, said officials.
"Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing of the disc," said Hideaki Kawai of Toppan, which worked with Sony.
It is not yet clear when the technology will be commercially available.
Next-generation DVDs
The disc is based on blue-laser DVD research, one of the technologies that could replace the current generation of red-laser DVD players.
Blu-ray discs can hold around 25 gigabytes of information, compared to the current limit of 4.7 gigabytes for a standard DVD.
A consortium of leading electronics manufacturers such as Sony, Philips, Hitachi and Samsung are developing the technology.
They hope it will become the standard format for the multimillion dollar DVD industry.
According to Sony, researchers were able to make a paper disc as Blu-ray technology does not require laser light to travel through a key layer of a disc called the substrate.
The paper discs are also expected to be cheaper to produce than current DVDs.
Both Sony and Toppan said they were looking at practical uses for the paper discs, but that no decision had been made on when they would be in the shops.
A paper disc that can hold up to five times more data than current DVDs has been developed by Sony and another Japanese company.
The disc is 51% paper and could offer foolproof security, said officials.
"Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing of the disc," said Hideaki Kawai of Toppan, which worked with Sony.
It is not yet clear when the technology will be commercially available.
Next-generation DVDs
The disc is based on blue-laser DVD research, one of the technologies that could replace the current generation of red-laser DVD players.
Blu-ray discs can hold around 25 gigabytes of information, compared to the current limit of 4.7 gigabytes for a standard DVD.
A consortium of leading electronics manufacturers such as Sony, Philips, Hitachi and Samsung are developing the technology.
They hope it will become the standard format for the multimillion dollar DVD industry.
According to Sony, researchers were able to make a paper disc as Blu-ray technology does not require laser light to travel through a key layer of a disc called the substrate.
The paper discs are also expected to be cheaper to produce than current DVDs.
Both Sony and Toppan said they were looking at practical uses for the paper discs, but that no decision had been made on when they would be in the shops.
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Posted there and garnered NO responses! This one is already 3 posts ahead. I love the last line. I love it when companies do things because they can, and then try to figure out what to do with it. "Well, Bob, there it is. Millions of dollars of research, tens of thousands of man hours, and three recycled aluminum cans, and finally . . . a 4 story 3-d composite model of what a quark would look like if it were actually a naked replica of your mom. Take that Freud! Maybe we can use it to hold down the paper DVDs that we can't find a use for."
It would really honk me off if a friend came over and accidentally used my new paper Criterion Gigli for a coaster.
I wonder if Warner Bros. will finally go to using plastic keepcases to hold the cheap paper DVDs? Oh the irony . . .
Kind of makes that whole Clearplay discussion moot when you can just write on the objectionable parts of the disc.
I heard that Cheech and Chong are teaming up to make the "Up In Smoke" rolling paper DVD special edition due out this fall.
I could go on for days with this . . . .
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Strikes me as odd that the first thing they play up about these is how easy they are to destroy. Is that really the main point of this tech? Is it really all that hard to render a current DVD unreadable?
<--- reusing your blind buys!
04-20-04, 02:51 PM
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Originally posted by Altimus Prime
Strikes me as odd that the first thing they play up about these is how easy they are to destroy. Is that really the main point of this tech? Is it really all that hard to render a current DVD unreadable?
Strikes me as odd that the first thing they play up about these is how easy they are to destroy. Is that really the main point of this tech? Is it really all that hard to render a current DVD unreadable?
04-20-04, 02:52 PM
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. . . inspired by bbioservt . . . Many of us have claimed (about various films) that we wouldn't even wipe our @$$es with "that" movie . . . now maybe we will.
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Think back years ago when insurance and real estate agents used to hand out those business cards that turned into sponges when placed in water . . .
