seanadams;145820 Wrote: > Even better that just having more buffer, and I'm not sure why nobody > thought of this for DVDs, would have been to distribute the data in a > RAID-like way, with parity blocks on diametrically opposite areas of > the disc. So you could completely obliterate any part of the disc and > as long as enough bits could still be read elsewhere you would sill get > 100% of the data. As it is, everything is still laid down in a > continuous spiral (not even concentric circles like a CD) and assumes > the data is accessed sequentially, with the additional error correction > bits right next to the data they're protecting. I should file a > patent...
so true. optical drives are fast enough now, why not treat them more like data drives than real-time data delivery mechanisms. but i once worked for philips nv and got a good understanding of the standards process that went into the cd and dvd formats. you can't even imagine how long it took and the compromises that were made, as well as the interesting politics between the consumer electronic companies (even standardizing the details of MPEG 2 took forever). just look at the HD format wars now. we're lucky we got anything standardized. so thank the audio gods for a company like slim devices that lets us get away from all those compromises! .phil -- pvadbx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pvadbx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5719 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
