Petabyte DVD Technology: Everything is about to change

PARKER, Colo. - July 24, 2013 - PRLog -- Petabyte DVD Technology: Everything is about to change

EFillF Productions examines new laser technique for burning DVD’s

In a technology rich industry, you literally have to not only "Keep up with the Joneses", but you need to stay 10 steps ahead of them. New and better technology is released monthly. While some of it may never catch on (can anybody say Betamax?), when certain things hit the market, you know everything is about to change.

EFillF Productions' technical manager Jeremy Hatfield gets his "Nerd on" by examining this latest news...

There are a few nerds, like myself, who are buzzing with the information that a new laser technique for burning DVD’s has surfaced which gives us the ability to put 1,000 Terabytes of information/data on a disc that could previously only hold 4.7 gigabytes. Most people shrug and wonder why we’re working with DVD’s in the first place. Wasn’t that a hot 90’s tech? How could society possibly benefit from such massive storage on a disc notoriously known for being easy to scratch or for losing everything? Or even worse; having fragmented files or movies that would maddeningly stop and jump all over the place. Well my friends, this has bigger implications than just a better burning process. Everything we know about this technology is about to change and get exponentially better!

1. It’s 1,000 Terabytes on a DVD!

    Even for those that don’t know how big file sizes are or simply believe your computer is a magic box that spews out pretty pictures, 1,000 terabytes is still a really big number. That’s 50,000 HD movies. I’m trying to think of how I could possibly find a Petabyte (one-thousand terabytes) of information to store on one single disc. I work in the video world in an age of High Definition shooting. We are accustomed to ridiculously large numbers when talking about small bits of video where for every large file size comes a large price tag - it’s the way technology works. A bit of tech gets halved in size and doubled in price (anyone who uses P2 cards, can I get an AMEN?). This has changed everything when it comes to digital storage. I can shoot all day long on a RED or Alexa and never have to worry about filling the DVD. But Jeremy, you say, DVD’s are really fragile and couldn’t even protect 4.7 gigs without getting scratched to hell. With that being said, how can this be a viable storage medium for so much condensed information? Well I’ll tell you this...

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EFillF Productions LLC provides Denver video production and post-production services.