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MaximRecoil
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Could an analog optical disc format be made today which could equal or exceed the quality of a 35mm film print?
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25-Nov-2008, 2:54 AM

Um, I'm pretty sure you can't store a terabyte of information on an optical disk. Even if you split it across multiple disks, like Laserdisc did, there's no way to get close to an uncompressed 35mm 4K scan (at the least). I'll admit, off the top of my head I don't have exact figures, but the space to save a 35mm scan is at the very least in the hundreds of GB range, and I'm pretty sure, actually in the terabyte range.

You're thinking in terms of digital storage, which is not what I'm talking about. For example, capture a 2 hour movie from LaserDisc in uncompressed video with enough resolution to do it justice, and that will come to what, a couple hundred gigs? Whatever it comes to, it is far more than a LaserDisc's digital storage capacity would be.

BTW, there have been optical discs demonstrated with a TB or higher capacity. HVD claims up to 3.9 TB capacity.  

Aside from which, digital display can't 100% replicate the color and density of film.

It would be wasted on a digital display anyway, simply because of the conversion to digital, which defeats the purpose; which is why I was talking about displaying it on a high-end CRT-based display.