Petabyte media player.

Thats about 1,000,000 movies worth of storage, i wonder how long it will be before i can buy one of these little media players? Like the article states though even petepyte storage when we eventually get it will not be enough,what about a storage device that can download the net?

news.bbc.co.uk...

How much porn do you have to need this?

BeMoreCynical, Its those kinds of comments that get you in trouble here on ATS.

Back on topic. Lets wait until we have a terabyte down before we start worring about the petebyte.

I just hope you know that i was only joking. 32 Petabytes is a heck of a lot of information.

Wow, so now instead of going from Gigabytes to Terrabytes, we are directly to Petabytes. That's a big step. I believe that after this happens we won't go up much faster anymore. What is entretaining and takes about 1 gig.

COOL gigs to terra ,terra to peta hey btw anyone wud lemme know how much misic we can store in petabytes and how much does it cost to convert from gigs to petabyte

I think we'll have petabyte media players in around 10-15 years.. By that time all the current media formats (dvd, cd etc) will be old hat and we'll be watching un-compressed super-highdef movies with 192k kHz 16 channel mixable soundtracks...basically current standards in high end production being matched by consumer devices... That's going to mean a huge storage requirement.

For example a typical movie frame, in it's original scanned digital format is 12.1 MBytes (2048x1556x10bit)

a 2 hour film is around 170,000 frames long, so a uncompressed movie is about 2 Terabytes. Add the soundtrack, extra scenes, interactive bits and all the other fluff and you're looking at 3 Terabytes per movie.. about 1200 times the size of a current standard DVD movie.

So a PetaByte media player is only going to store around 300 movies...A big collection, but not inconceivable. Then you have super-highdef video recordings, home movies, all your literature, audiobooks, personal files..

I might wait for the 10 Petabyte model myself!!

[edit on 22/9/04 by muppet]

Technology is moving so fast.....
The government are proabably using it right now for recorded alien conversations!! Sounds ill, but for now i am pleased with what i've got!

Originally posted by MacKiller
BeMoreCynical, Its those kinds of comments that get you in trouble here on ATS.

you sad wanker!


I thought it was a funny post anyway.