Specs Finalized For Ultra HD Blu-ray, Licensing Begins Summer 2015

[synphul]

I think discs have plenty of purpose. Until the u.s. mandates high bandwidth/unlimited bandwidth with fast enough connections to EVERYone, not all of us can stream.

Hopefully, they'll mandate that internet access is free too! And maybe a $50,000/yr minimum wage. How about a free mansion while you're at it. Where are all the tech libertarians I keep hearing about? In the past few years, gov't took over/regulated school loans, healthcare, the internet... why do so many of you really seem to trust the Gov't that much?

It's not a matter of wanting something for nothing, it's about standards being pushed for which there is no backbone to run it on. I've paid well over $100/mo for internet and that's not for cable or dsl. You can offer $1000/mo to a provider but if the service doesn't exist it doesn't exist. Buy a ferrari, buy 10 - they won't run on water unless a bridge is built. All these tech companies want to shove hype and bloat down everyone's throats but good luck hearing them speak up when asked HOW that's going to happen since the virtual 'highways' are non existent. Trying to raise the speed limit to 65mph on a one lane dirt road. Try paving it first and add a couple lanes.

 

[mapesdhs]

And yes tapes fail too. That is why you need several copies of your backups, with at least one of them stored in a security vault located in a different citty.

Some good points there, and yes indeed, when I was a sysadmin backups were held in two places,
one set in my office, another set in a hefty fire-proof safe elsewhere in the building.

It's not a matter of wanting something for nothing, it's about standards being pushed for which there is no backbone to run it on. ...

Doubly annoying when ever more aspects of daily life are altered so that having a net link makes many things way easier. Now we have job vacancies to which one must apply only via Facebook, state benefits which require online form filling, etc.

It's already reached the stage where some pressure groups are talking about net access becoming a human right. Funny old world we've made for ourselves, some struggle to survive amidst conflicts or lack of food, others complain about a freakin' net link.

Ian.

 

[spdragoo]

I can see Netflix's position. After all, if the consoles' resolution output is hardwired to 720p or 1080p, it can't display 4K content without hardware replacement. They can downgrade the 4K feed quality to match their hardware capabilities...but that's like watching a Blu-Ray disk on an old 15" 4:3 color TV via RCA cables.

 

[stuartrank1n]

Blu Ray is still a thing? 😉

 

[Draven35]

Ok, so what are the actual standards? what data rate, sampling, and bit depth?

 

[urbanman2004]

Those disks are gonna be expensive as sh*t. Hell, 1 dual layer blu ray disk costs $16-$20 w/ shipping at its cheapest rate

 

[nukemaster]

Ok, so what are the actual standards? what data rate, sampling, and bit depth?

If you clicked the source(Business Wire) at the top of the page you would get some extra information.

You can find some more information that seems to match what other tech sites are running for UHD BD.
http://www.cnet.com/news/ultra-hd-4k-blu-ray-what-we-know/

Will not not be interested in this if users of current UHD tv's/monitors need to replace them however(DRM reasons).

Those disks are gonna be expensive as sh*t. Hell, 1 dual layer blu ray disk costs $16-$20 w/ shipping at its cheapest rate

I agree the prices are high.

The problem is it never became as wide spread as CDs and DVDs.

Mass production makes things cheaper.

I honestly only use BD for watching movies and use hard dives for backup and flash drives to get files out of my network.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

If I want to watch a 4K movie, I'm going to stop at Walmart on the way home, buy the bluray, come home and pop it in the player and watch with my dog. I don't want to wait 48 hours to download the thing. It seems that the file capacity of movies and video games is increasing faster than the download speeds to actually get that content quickly. I don't care if you have 300Mbps Internet because when downloading a game or movie usually the server limits you anyway so you'll be just as fast as everyone else.

 

[nukemaster]

The backbone of the internet is pretty fast and getting faster as companies upgrade.

You are still at the mercy of the slowest link in the chain. It is kind of luck and location.

I expect bandwidth issues to be solved over time with more and more users demanding high speed internet(for multiple devices).