Questions

Is there a need for it? Yes! Of course there is! My idea is awesome! >.< AWESOME! (if I say awesome enough you will admit it too ^_^) There isn't necessarily a NEED for it but I'm sure, POSITIVE, there is a market for my product! As technology is unreliable, I personally like receiving a disk for games or programs instead of just getting it online and it being on my computer, because I have a hard copy in case my computer crashes or something goes wrong.

Are their competitors to your project? Are there options? I will keww them =_= dey come to my house dey eat my food and now they try to take my idea! :P Blu-ray would probably be the only competitor, but also I suppose in a sense Steve Jobs trying to undermine my idea the bastard =_=!

Blu-ray in relation to my product

Blu-ray uses a blue laser, what that means is that the wavelength is shorter so therefore it's easier to focus the laser with more precision, which in turn allows more information to be packed in the same amount of space.

Blu-ray discs can hold 25/50GB.

Blu-ray has also made a disc that can hold up to 500GB by adding 20 layers on the disc.

My product could be made with the same idea - more layers = more capacity. Also it only needs to be able to hold a movie.

Information from - http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1616

DVD upscaling

The average DVD player can output 720x480 (480i) pixel resolution. A progressive scan DVD player can output video signals 720x480 (480p).

480i = 720 pixels across 480 down. All the odd lines are displayed then the even

480p = 720 pixels across 480 down. Each line is displayed one after the other.

HD-DVD - upscaling

HD-TV outputs 1280x720 (720p) pixel resolution or 1920x1080 (1080i or 1080p)

720p = 1280 pixels across 720 down. Each line is displayed one after the other, in a progressive pattern.

1080i = 1920 pixels across 1080 down. All the odd lines are displayed followed by the even.

1080p = 1920 pixels across 1080 down. Each line is displayed one after the other.

Upscaling matches the pixel count of the DVD to the pixel count on the TV.

- information retrieved from http://hometheater.about.com/od/hometheatervideobasics/qt/dvdvidupscale.htm

My awesome idea

.... that's not outdated >.<

It would be AWESOME to see a tiny CD player on an iPhone/iPod because it's an AWESOME idea! iPod classic is the only one with a harddrive but the rest of the iPod's just Putting a slot in the iPhone and iPod would be more convienient for consumers. The i-products have limited memory status; if you wanted to add more than the capacity you'd have to delete things you may not want to, with a hard-copy you can take it out and put it back in when you want to exploit it's media.