Plextor's CD-RW drive packs more data

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1. April 16, 2003 10:23 AM
   poertner_1274 said:
   That sounds like quite a step forward. But as you said how well will a standard cd player be able to read them?It seems to me that you would need a special lens to read them since they are so much smaller, but maybe that is what Plextor is wanting.....
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2. April 16, 2003 11:27 AM
   Rick said:
   Even 980mb is too small. When games started getting released on 3 or more CDs, you knew the media's time is up... And that was years ago.We also cannot make the media faster than it is, which is another reason it is outdated.We will probably be switching to DVD soon.. All of us.. So be prepared. :) It is too much like the CD though, although it does hold a respectable amount of data. I'm looking forward to the next leap in technology over the DVD.
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3. April 16, 2003 12:50 PM
   poertner_1274 said:
   I read a while ago that it will have to deal with holograms. It can supposedly hold up to 4 times as much as a regular dvd. This was some months ago though, and I haven't read or seen anything else since then.
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4. April 16, 2003 1:36 PM
   SNGX1275 said:
   You sure that wasn't different wavelength lasers poertner?
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5. April 16, 2003 3:01 PM
   MrGaribaldi said:
   [quote][i]Originally posted by Rick [/i][b]Even 980mb is too small. When games started getting released on 3 or more CDs, you knew the media's time is up... And that was years ago.[/b][/quote]I seem to recall phantasmagoria, myst and other games being released on several cd's back in 1996... And here we are in 2003 and still using cd's...:DBut I do agree that we'll be changing to another medium on the not so far off future... But just what medium that'll be I'm not so sure of...
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6. April 16, 2003 5:22 PM
   poertner_1274 said:
   [quote][i]Originally posted by SNGX1275 [/i][b]You sure that wasn't different wavelength lasers poertner? [/b][/quote] Yeah I remember distinctly it had to do with holograms. But as I said it might have fallen through because I haven't heard anything about it in a long time.
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