The Terabyte-Rex finally coming and not even the studios, networks and lawyers will be able to stop it

By Erick Hansen

If you could have every Potter flick on one disc, including 3D, and every game, director's cut, outake and interview -- it would take Harry's wand. No longer, T-Byte is coming

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/28/11 – The terabyte disc promise is finally coming closer to reality. Sony is reportedly developing the 1000 gigabyte disc needed as the latest film, game, TV and software demand giant space.

Yet the space needed for a 50 movies (!) is just one T-Byte disc. You could keep every AFI Top 100 films in history on a pair of these Blu-ray discs, probably with a little room left for every Oscar nominated film of the year and a couple of 3Ds like Rango or Harry Potter in the mix.

That year is little way off, likely five to seven years as both hardware and the software are going under a massive makeover. Hollywood Today said this was coming – and the new technologies are demanding it.

Movies in 3D require gigabytes galore. HD entertainment, from films to TV series is ravenous for space. And don’t get us started on the next generation of computer games where your living avatar alone could take a virtual landscape of gigs just to look and move like you want it.

Did we mention computer software? All the Microsoft and Apple things you use might snuggle on one disc, with room for Cisco, Adobe and Sun to curl up at the bottom of the bed.

There will be copyright questions galore with these megadiscs able to hold a whole library of films from every studio – yet HT assures you nothing will stop the T-Byte from coming through like a T-Rex in a Spielberg film.

Key to this is more and more layers on each disc, and players able to read them. This reporter’s company, Blue Ray Technologies, has been working on 10-layer, 250 gig prototypes. Yet this so-far secret of 50 layers-plus astounds even us – though not for long.

Key will be a new generation of Blu-ray players (yes we know you just bought one, start saving for your next one). The laser size on the new players – or recorders which we mention just for fun freaking out every film, TV, game and software company in the world – will be much smaller, about 300 nanometers according to technologists — and thinner layers and “pit size” on the discs.

Refreshment rates with this next-gen will supposedly make the Internet and cable/satellite delivery look as slow as your great-grandparent’s first car or buggy.

There is another nice benefit if the lawyers let us put libraries on a single disc. That means one thin slice of plastic holds everything – much nicer for Mother Earth, who is still trying to digest your 8-tracks, cassettes, beta tapes, VHS’s, CD, DVDs and more. Let Mom alone, she’s tired so get her a player and a single disc that carries the top environmental-interesting releases of all time.