Ok if 45GB isn’t enough and 100GB is a vast improvement, then 850GB’s ends the conversation, right? If only it were that simple. Believe it or not Iomega has patented a 850 Gigabyte optical disc. Yeah that’s basically 10 times better than the best of Sony’s Blu-ray discs, of course there’s one catch.

Much like Sony?s announced, but still to be seen 100GB Blu-ray disc, Iomega’s “Reflective Nanostructure” technology is still on the drawing board and not in production. I’m of the opinion that anything in the neighborhood of 35GB is probably sufficient for high definition movies on a disc, as even with MPEG2 encoding they top out at around 28GB’s, but others will argue the merits of more storage space endlessly.

If either Sony or Toshiba could partner up with Iomega on an up-coming HD-DVD format (it’s too late now), the storage issue would be a moot point once and for all.

Michael.G

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