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RE[2]: What was wrong with HD-DVD?
by CowMan on Sun 6th Jan 2008 06:21 UTC in reply to "RE: What was wrong with HD-DVD?"
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What's interesting is that when quad-speed CD drives hit (and thus, single & double speed CD drives started to become affordable), hard drives were small: compared to a 40mb hard drive, a 650mb CD seemed impossibly large. Check out the MPC spec;

"The MPC 1 Specification defines the following minimum standard requirements: a 386SX or 486 CPU; 2 MB RAM; 30 MB hard disk; VGA video display; 8-bit digital audio subsystem; CD-ROM drive"

For an equivalent estimation of "future needs", and assuming say a 250gb drive as 'standard', the disc would have to hold 5TB. For their time, CD's were great and DVD's have been pretty good, we're just hitting 'diminishing returns' on optical media.

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