There’s been a lot of hullabaloo regarding these new super-capacity blu-ray discs with a storage of 25Gb on a single layer disc, quite impressive even if we are thrown back into the days of waiting an hour to burn a full disc, but then again I’m inclined to think that shovelling a whopping 25gb onto optical media in just about the hour mark is acceptable…I mean how far can we push the limits of storage capacity with speed. Fair enough they clain 64-bit systems for the task, and I say what harm, a 64-bit address space is exponentially better than its 32-bit equivalents…64-bit is the way to go, natch bar the limitations of space a 32-bit system can address such data volumes. At Blue Star we run Windows XP 64-bit edition on our desktops, aside from work where we would perhaps like to see 64 bit native Dreamweaver and Photoshop (especially this), many people don’t quite grasp the significant leap to 64 bit technology, the fact that major Linux vendors can run symmetrical multiprocessor 64 bit systems out of the box, bundled with a top of the range GeForce gfx card…the results speak for themselves and seem to leave micro$oft dead in the water. This is the future, and I know coming from the past with 8-bit atari’s…its clearly time to move forward and embrace these emerging mega technologies…fair enough on a 64 bit system it takes close to an hour to burn 25Gb on a blu-ray disk, but then again 25GB in an hour sounds reasonable to me as the current offerings from Pioneer boast these rates. The more data to transfer, the more addressable disk and memory space is needed and for the moment 64 bit systems do the job. At the same time this is equivalent to 7x DVD write speed, not too sloppy, but me like many other ‘wanting the best power ratio’ advocates always want things faster. But I still think these drives are in their early stages. The drives currently on the market don’t write DVD’s, in my opinion this is a major oversight, fair enough CD burning is relatively obsolete unless you want to cut to odd music cd or an mp3 cd to play away on your home DVD player in the comfort of your living room…but hey, it’s still cool…but I’d be inclined to wait for the drives to mature and adapt better into the wider market place before taking one on board…

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD restricted on 32-bit systems

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