While HD DVD and Blu-ray fight to become the next-generation disc storage format, a new technology has been unveiled that promises to eclipse them both.
Israeli company Mempile has unveiled a technology for storing up to a terabyte (1TB) of data on a standard-size, 12cm clear polymer disc - that's 950GB more than a double-layer Blu-ray disc and 300GB more than even the most optimistic estimates for blue-laser technologies.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Oh... My... God. 1000Gb!?!?? multi layered Blu-HD-DVD can't even get to 200Gb... if this thing gets a big support from a 3rd company (Microsoft? Apple? Phillips?) Then the format war could be over.
Like I was saying yesterday, it would be smart to stick to DVD until this so called HD wars is over then you decide what you want to move with.
What's Ironic is that, DVD might come out on top even after all the time both(BLURAY AND HDVD) companies are wasting competing with each other.
I believe if they were working together, they would have achieved something even better than what is out here now.
Flame on Blu-ray and HD DVD, call me when one of ya all quit:)
Technology moves too fast today to try to push one format over another. That business model is obsolete.
Sweet! ^_^
Is it because of the disc space hence why HD movies can only be on those 2 formats?
If that is the case this means you could easily put a HD movie on a normal DVD but how would you differentiate the 2? You would obviously have to brand it HD - DVD...
This also means it *could* be good for Xbox 360? That means a single layer DVD with say XX number of GB of space which means whilst Sony uses blu-ray for games with 50gb max, 360 games could be using more?