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RE: 4K 60FPS video is coming but where are we going to store it? The unexplored potential of optical discs
Yeah, we'll be putting the uhd streams on cloud-based hard disks and on teeny little pieces of flash memory. Spinning disks are probably destined to only live on in datacenters, where they still get a lot of use as the low-speed, low-cost, low reliability alternative to flash memory, and can be made reliable by joining them together into insanely large (think: 1 million 10TB disks) arrays.
I think the problem will be "solved" for us, by simply doing a massive reduction in quality of the videos. The phones, the video cameras, etc, will simply save in a very "compressed" format, for "practical reasons", leaving most of the details out. Thus instead of having storage issues we'll have quality issues instead. But virtually nobody will be noticing them because 4K will be better than 1080 and seem like an "upgrade" that they are happy to pay.