Advanced Minds

 You only need to look at the sales figures to see that.  I notice you posted no _link_ to such a statistical historical record. Nice job making the claim, however.  Bwuahahahah! So are you disagreeing that VHS sold better than LD...?

Well no.  Also for permanent backup, 1 BR disc is going to be a lot cheaper than Flash RAM or a portable HDD. Or to transfer something to permanent storage to free up space on local HDDs.   However a hard drive will be three orders of magnitude more reliable, and will have a much faster access/feed rate.

only way to get a datagram of that size onto a storage medium, so that 12 disc form factor was all that was available for that size datagram, you stupid fuck.  It was also easily mass producible.  Do the fucking math, idiot.  as resolution goes up so too does the stream rate required to deliver it and the total size of the stored datagram.  It comes down to bytes per _frame_.  The only other medium at the time that could store that much was hard drives.  You need a fucking brain if you think that would have been economical.  Now that we can store huge amounts of data on smaller and smaller devices, idiots like you think we have had that capacity all along.  Such is not the case.  You are clueless. I know all this but I don't see what it has to do with proving whether it was the superior product or not.   You're an idiot.

 You only need to look at the sales figures to see that.  I notice you posted no _link_ to such a statistical historical record. Nice job making the claim, however.  Bwuahahahah! So are you disagreeing that VHS sold better than LD...?  You're an idiot. You are one of those abso-fucking-lutely retarded fucks that cannot examine statistical figures correctly.

Well no.  Also for permanent backup, 1 BR disc is going to be a lot cheaper than Flash RAM or a portable HDD. Or to transfer something to permanent storage to free up space on local HDDs.  However a hard drive will be three orders of magnitude more reliable, and will have a much faster access/feed rate. More reliable? assuming the disc burns okay, optical storage is far more reliable than a HDD.

Tom < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message news: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it <Snip Here's my argument in a nutshell. BR is currently to expenisve for BRD-R to be practical.  However this will change in the future when the price comes down. Portable HDD/SS RAM will still be a better choice in a lot of situation but by no means all situations.  Just as DVD-Rs aren't always the best option today.  They both have different practical applications. A BRD to HDD isn't a good comparison for this reason, I'm not saying that it's a better option than HDD/SS, I'm saying it's the logical successor to DVD-R. Also in relation to your CD to DVD migration, you were talking about music commercially produced CDs.  IIRC Writable CDs weren't really around until about the mid 90s (Thought Wikipedia says the original technology was developed in 88) about six years before writable DVDs hit the market.