IBM Patents Optical Disc With Embedded Flash Memory

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[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]Why not instead of using flash memory simply make a small area of the disc R/W?[/citation]

prob too difficult to manufacture as the two types use different storage substrates.
 
CDs(and DVDs) have their place in history, but they are a dead tech. Time to let them die.

Its been several years now since the last time i bought anything on a disc. Digital downloads for the win! And if you really want a physical copy, they should just stick it on a cheap USB flash drive.

DVDs are just too slow and limited storage.

Blueray, is just garbage in every sense. It's way too expensive, way too slow, and stuffed so full of DRM that it makes using them very annoying. Sticking a new blueray into your player and having it not work due to a new form of DRM has happened far too many times. Even when they work, they load way way too slow, and the interface locks you into watching all their previews and crap when all you want is the movie.

Time for spinning disk media to just die.
 
" And we currently backup all our data to 2 copies of blueray disks, for long term storage. Way more cost effective and accessible than anything else we could find. So disks are not going anywhere."

Blueray for backups? Eww.....just buy a couple usb flash drives and backup to them, faster, easier. But the real reason to use flash drives instead is you don't have to worry about the cds delaminating and destroying all your data, the flash drives are going to last a hell of a lot longer. Blueray hasn't been out long enough to see how fast this will happen yet; however it happened FAR FAR sooner for rewritable cds then the companies advertised. I wouldnt trust it at all for long term storage.

Sure USB flash drives cost more, but they are still cheap as hell. Like $10 for 16 gigs, $20 for 32 gigs.
 
Why not instead of using flash memory simply make a small area of the disc R/W?



prob too difficult to manufacture as the two types use different storage substrates.
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Then why not simply make one layer R/W that way you can use existing DVD/ blue ray players. If they must go and use SSD then it would be better to use electromagnetic induction rather than contacts.

I place all of my ideas published here in the public domain.
The point is, is that they patent all sorts of silly ideas just in case someone tries to use it in a product.

Here is another idea, why not provide a link or switch on a hard drive to securely delete the data on the hard drive including backup sectors?

I can come up with ideas for patents like this until the cows come home, it maybe a good idea for Tomshardware to have a forum for people to post computer related ideas, which will be in the public domain and so stop companies from patenting them and stifling innovation in the computer industry.
 
[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]Why not instead of using flash memory simply make a small area of the disc R/W?[/citation]
Yeah , why not use next gen flash cards that sotre 1tb for example ? and just insert them in the reader to oad a movie for example xd lal
 
Cloud? Slow and takes up bandwidth, but acessable. Good for docs, pics, etc etc.
FlashDrives? Fast and somewhat high cap, but, I question reliability. I have had a few flashdrives suddenly lose all their contents on me for no reason at all.
DVD? The old standby, burn and turn. Somewhat slow, but good capacity.
NAS? This is my preferred method. Fast, high capacity, and if built right, very reliable.
DVD with flash? The perfect anti-piracy disk if used right and gets popular.
 
[citation][nom]alk2kl2lkl2k[/nom]CDs(and DVDs) have their place in history, but they are a dead tech. Time to let them die.Its been several years now since the last time i bought anything on a disc. Digital downloads for the win! And if you really want a physical copy, they should just stick it on a cheap USB flash drive.DVDs are just too slow and limited storage.Blueray, is just garbage in every sense. It's way too expensive, way too slow, and stuffed so full of DRM that it makes using them very annoying. Sticking a new blueray into your player and having it not work due to a new form of DRM has happened far too many times. Even when they work, they load way way too slow, and the interface locks you into watching all their previews and crap when all you want is the movie.Time for spinning disk media to just die.[/citation]
It's called unauthorized Bluray players *cough* *cough*
 
I don't understand why they don't "rent" movies on flash media. Pay $20 up front for each 8GB (dvd) or $40 for each 32GB (bd) movie flash chip.

When you rent a movie, its yours for one set price with no late fees, bring it back in and exchange it for another movie (swap your drive for an in stock one).
 
[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]Why not instead of using flash memory simply make a small area of the disc R/W?[/citation]

far to limited on the number of tines you can do that.

[citation][nom]5kisssss[/nom]" And we currently backup all our data to 2 copies of blueray disks, for long term storage. Way more cost effective and accessible than anything else we could find. So disks are not going anywhere."Blueray for backups? Eww.....just buy a couple usb flash drives and backup to them, faster, easier. But the real reason to use flash drives instead is you don't have to worry about the cds delaminating and destroying all your data, the flash drives are going to last a hell of a lot longer. Blueray hasn't been out long enough to see how fast this will happen yet; however it happened FAR FAR sooner for rewritable cds then the companies advertised. I wouldnt trust it at all for long term storage.Sure USB flash drives cost more, but they are still cheap as hell. Like $10 for 16 gigs, $20 for 32 gigs.[/citation]

i have an 8gb flash drive, i used it twice for moving large files a dvd couldn't burn, the second time, i lost files because the damn thing corrupted. i have burnt over 500 dvds, and over 700 cds, i can put the first cd i ever burnt int my dvd player right now, and the thing will still read it all. so long as the burn was good and verified, i never had a problem with dvd, but i have had more than 1 flash drive/device crap out on me, for no real reason. so i don't trust flash as much as i trust dvd for storage.

right now blurays are about the same price as dvds, at gb per $ level, in a year or so, i will probably get a bluray burner and move some of my old dvd backups to bluray.

and a side not for anyone, if you back up data... make sure its a redundant system, anything important have 2 coppies.
 
[citation][nom]alk2kl2lkl2k[/nom]And if you really want a physical copy, they should just stick it on a cheap USB flash drive.[/citation]Even the cheapest flash drives are still much more expensive than optical discs. No one is going to distribute software on flash drives unless you're willing to stomach another $20 hike on the price.
Blueray, is just garbage in every sense. It's way too expensive, way too slow, and stuffed so full of DRM that it makes using them very annoying.
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The DRM has little to do with Blu-ray itself, and don't think for a minute you aren't going to get the same crap on your digital downloads -- unless you pirate, of course. As for speed... it's still a helluva lot faster than my internet connection.
Sticking a new blueray into your player and having it not work due to a new form of DRM has happened far too many times.
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Never had that happen a single time.
Even when they work, they load way way too slow[...]
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Stop buying cheap Blu-ray players and the loading isn't as much of an issue.
[...]and the interface locks you into watching all their previews and crap when all you want is the movie.
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You can almost always hit a button to skip straight to the menu. They do need to stop with the 20 warnings for piracy and other miscellaneous crap. If you're watching it, you didn't pirate. Pirated copies don't get the warnings. But the idiots in suits running these companies probably won't ever understand a concept such as logic. But again, this is nothing specific to optical discs. They're already doing the same thing to streaming video and digital downloads.
Time for spinning disk media to just die.
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If my choices are spinning disc or cloud, I choose spinning disc any day.
 
Sony pretty much won the HD format war when they bundled Blu-ray players with their PS3. The players were so cheap that initially researchers salvaged PS3s to extract the typically expensive blue laser diode or whatever the laser emitter is called.
 
My question is still (since I remember these arguments being made for Xbox 360 game disks) how thin can flash circuits be and can they be etched onto a metal layer which replaced the top poly-carbonate layer, the reflective layer under the paint which usually gets (these days I guess it is probably better to substitue NAND for PCM in this concept, but seeing as how there's a laser involved in reading it would probably heat the PC bits and ruin them) of lets say multi-layered BDXL media and would the paint be protection enough above the reflective layer with NAND circuits etched on it. But more importantly can the disk also have wireless functionality for accessing the NAND embedded for DRM (just a couple megs would be enough, kilobytes even that could be constantly update with the player's profile and system hardware information.)

http://www.innoasic.com/sd_wireless.htm

But again for mass storage, there's enough area on a typical optical disk compared to a thumbnail sized 16 gig micro SD card to make you wonder if for example (and even for thousands of dollars per disk) could you have 100 writable gigs of Flash and 200 gigs of ROM per disk. Overkill for games but as writable backup media (without putting it in a drive to read the optical layers), IBM could still make a killing.
 
[citation][nom]pjmelect[/nom]Why not instead of using flash memory simply make a small area of the disc R/W?Maybe I should patent this idea?[/citation]

Manufacturing costs for the media and reader. But the patent explains it well enough, you put the NAND in the ring. Arguably it should cost nothing to make the ring wider, insert a dummy piece of silicon, plastic or rubber for supporting legacy optical drives, on conventional optical disks and let users insert a NAND +wireless ring with as much flash as you can afford (for storage, DRM, disk indentification or whatever purpose).

Maybe I should patent that.. 😛
 
why not instead put a small SSD in the blu-ray player? Or do they have that already? I don't see the point of actually putting it on the disc. Especially for the renter side of things. Instead have every player have a unique ID on the "cloud" (formerly known as the internet...). Seems much cheaper and easier to manage user data. The only place I see this useful is with software installation disc's (OS's specifically) that can control DRM.
 
[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]why not instead put a small SSD in the blu-ray player? Or do they have that already? I don't see the point of actually putting it on the disc. Especially for the renter side of things. Instead have every player have a unique ID on the "cloud" (formerly known as the internet...). Seems much cheaper and easier to manage user data. The only place I see this useful is with software installation disc's (OS's specifically) that can control DRM.[/citation]

Cartridge? Nintendo abandoned the cartridges after realizing that CD productions were more flexible and cheaper than cartridges.
 
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