While Yoda may have stated the famous quote “Size matters not” some 30+ years ago, he couldn’t be more wrong when it comes to the world of high definition content and the physical media required to successfully store that content.
Blu-ray disks with a huge 100-125 gigabyte capacity for storing ultra-high definition movies are likely to be available this year, Samsung has revealed.
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, manufacturers including Samsung, Sony and LG have been showing off their latest ultra-high definition TVs.
These TVs have razor-sharp screens with four times the resolution of typical 1080p high definition, flat screen TVs in Australian homes. However problems remain before the so-called 4K format is viable.
One is the lack of movie content in the new ultra-high definition or 4K format; another is not having a way of conveying 4k content to users: 4K movies can require more than 100GB of storage – which is far in excess of the 25 GB capacity of a single layer Blu-ray disk and the 4.7GB available on a DVD.
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