With future technology can Sony bring back the MiniDisc with more storage capacity and replace Blu-ray for the Playstation 5? Seems like they could have more layers with more density on the disc on the front and back and there is a lot of wasted space in the center of the MiniDisc. Back then they where capable of putting 1 GB on a MiniDisc and 1.8 GB on a UMD and now a Mini Blu-ray Disc holds 16 GB.
MiniDisc is better because it actually protects the disc, i've came across a lot of PS4 an Xbox One games that are completely scratched they could even just put the normal Blu-ray Disc in a case and i'd be happy.
the cases that older media was stored in worked better for preserving them from surface damage. it was never a bad idea or design really, just not enough storage
Kevin Davis
Big game boxes take more shelf space which is a good thing
Daniel Allen
1) Sony already said no PS5, only incremental upgrades to the PS4 indefinitely 2) We're already at the point where a new console wouldn't even have physical media, just a Steam style digital shop built into the console
Mason Cook
I don’t really think that matters because Switch games are very small.
>1) Sony already said no PS5, only incremental upgrades to the PS4 indefinitely There will be a ps5, you can bet on that. >2) We're already at the point where a new console wouldn't even have physical media, just a Steam style digital shop built into the console Only a 5% of the world has the internet to back a online console&game streaming. There are a lot of people in the world who still have monthly data limits, and downloading two console games would fill that up fast.
Zachary Martinez
remember when you there was a patch every other year or so? now it's like every time you turn on your console / start steam
Jeremiah Williams
Blu-ray in a cartridge did exist, was abandoned when they developed a better hard coating
This is what Blu-Ray should have been, there are a lot of games and movies from second hand stores that are completely scratched. Maybe they can do it for the PS5, ideally a bit smaller.
Nolan Butler
Some early cdrom drives had you use caddies. Maybe we should just go back to this? Advantage being any existing disc could work instead of having to create a whole new format.
Kevin Young
The 80s wantsyou back. The rest of us don't want physical at all, not bulky expensive disk caddies driving up the cost of all games.
Cooper Russell
Forgot picture of an example of one (yeah it's an apple but there were non apple ones too)
But it’s unavoidable because the internet still isn’t good in every country, might as well get something better than the current tech.
Luis Kelly
It's not better though. It's just more expensive, stop being a child and learn to put your discs away.
Alexander Johnson
The stuff I’m talking about is second hand and not my fault, now with the Xbox One being backwards compatible I’ve seen a lot of Xbox 360 DVDs that are completely trashed and a case could have saved them.
Jason Baker
I had a 486 with this style CD-ROM. I think we got it in 1995?
Jaxon Nguyen
Yeah I never personally remember ever dealing with this style, only the usual tray ones. I did get my first dvdrom later in like early 00s when I was first getting into DVD and it was a slot feed instead of a tray which was cool, but that was the only time I ever didn't have a tray. My DVD burner now is slot loading. I've never adopted bluray.
Aiden Baker
>blah blah blah tech stuff blah blah blah No point trying to justify your point of view. You like minidiscs because it's a comfy jp 80s tech.
Hudson Murphy
its called a thin 2.5inch HDD.
you can get ones larger and cheaper than any media they are the future of media just buy a nice trayless bay for them this one has doors but im looking for one without doors and just works like SDcard slot or has eject button.
My family moved to Japan when I was a kid and minidisc was so much more popular there than they ever were here in the states. The format was comfy as fuck and it could have been a great replacement if it just wasn't so expensive over here. It was all over when CD burners and media came down in price.
David Moore
They also come in smaller sizes (albeit less data capacity) for use in camcorders and easier insertion. >
>tfw no holographic discs which were almost ready >now stuck in the normalfag streaming timeline >all optical media looked down on, even bluray We were so close. Now we must accept lossy quality, low bitrates and not owning our data.
What sets aside DVD-RAM from other worm drives and even rewritable is that the disk has sectors that are "hard coded". What that means is that individual parts of the disk are rewritten when they need to be instead of a complete disk wipe. These can be used similarly to a hard drive in that sense. There are also some versions that don't include a caddy for backwards compatibility.
I'm sure you know more than Sony about their own business plan, kid. Their ideology going forward is to treat consoles like PCs, a new hardware upgrade every couple years while still maintaining compatibility with the entire game library. Microsoft has also publicly agreed with that strategy. Nintendo seems to be the only company that possibly still plans on doing iterative consoles, mainly because their consoles for the past few generations have relied on gimmicks.
Justin Turner
Is it weird that I don't trust sd cards because they don't have moving parts
Luis Ortiz
They aren't very reliable even despite that.
Owen Clark
You can fit basically any PS4 game on a SD card, try harder.
Samuel Myers
xfer rates aren't even bad on these. Impossible to find a drive tho and the disks are pricey.
>1) Sony already said no PS5, only incremental upgrades to the PS4 indefinitely False. >2) We're already at the point where a new console wouldn't even have physical media, just a Steam style digital shop built into the console No way that is going to work unless they create some kind of proprietary "expansion memory" to install games, normies aren't replacing internal SSDs/HDDs.
Bentley Stewart
Nice headcannon user. They just did something that Nintendo was doing for years with their portables, and this is not stopping them from releasing next gen consoles.
That shit was dumb as fuck, they should have just went with CDs.
Ayden Adams
Don't really understand how it never caught on, it should have at least replaced music CDs. Maybe it's because they thought people would want a DVD drive that was also compatible with CDs and with the mp3 player coming up there was no need for the disc to be smaller because no one was using a portable disc player anymore.
Minidisc was complex and so they required bigger decks. It's only okay as a portable media; however, they make up for that by having small cartridges. At the same time Sony has to fuck up everything cool they do by making it both proprietary and shit. aka ATRAC
