Blu-Ray

Well that didn't take long!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7314000/7314276.stm

"Slysoft says the new version of its AnyDVD programme allows users to make
"backup security copies" of high definition movies"

Suppose it might be time to invest.

When will manufacturers learn....

 

Forget it. Rotating media is on its last gasp.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/28/thx_scientist_favours_flash/

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beat me to it ...

 

It'll come in as another "green" initiative. All the spinning up and
down of discs is Causing Global Warming. Conservation of Angular
Momentum, innit? Each time a disc spins up or down it needs to push
against something, and this ends up speeding up and slowing down the
Earth's spin, just the tiniest bit.

Multiply that up by the numbers of CDs, DVDs and now Blu-Ray discs that
are being used (CD players, DVD players, PCs, games consoles, etc.)
around the world and you're on to something.

Add in the hard drives used in all those computers in offices, server
rooms, etc. around the globe and it'll be causing untold havoc!

Now, is there a computer equivalent of MCN we can bluff that to?

 

I think the main problem will be the big old low-capacity drives still in
use in the former Soviet Union. Not much data density, but the rotating
mass is huge, and they're using enormous accelerations to improve access
times. We're potentially looking at the electronic equivalent of Chernobyl.