New Xbox 360 disc format in the works...

[heybtbm]

To allow more space on a disc?

http://kotaku.com/#!5786898/microsoft-tests-an-updated-xbox-360-disc-format-in-the-latest-update-preview

http://majornelson.com/2011/03/29/xb...pdate-preview/

Interesting.

[c0ldb33r]

Neat. I wonder how it'll work. How can you fit now stuff on a DVD? If they find a way hopefully it will be useable on pcs too.

I was hoping to sign up for the beta but it's USA only

[kedawa]

I wonder why any link from kotaku sends me to the main page. I never see the article people are talking about.

How can you fit now stuff on a DVD?

[Leo_A]

I imagine it has to either do with security, how the data is encoded to the disc itself, or some new compression technique.

They're not going to be able to do anything too revolutionary here with existing DVD drives. 8.54 gigs/7.95 GiBs is pretty much it. All they can do is change how the data is presented in that given amount of space on a DVD-9 disc.

About the only other thing I can think of is they're considering double sided disc and want to get our reactions to it and see how well they hold up to wear and tear with a large scale test program? Perhaps single player will occupy one side of the disc with multiplayer the other?

I sure hope not, I hate double sided disc.

[Robocop2]

I signed up; hopefully I get in

[buzz_n64]

Maybe they will try something like the GD-ROM. Maybe double sided discs without flipping the disc over? Maybe they will reintroduce the HD-DVD as an exclusive gaming media format.

[DKTheArcadeRat]

I signed up. Let's see what happens.

[Leo_A]

Maybe they will try something like the GD-ROM. Maybe double sided discs without flipping the disc over? Maybe they will reintroduce the HD-DVD as an exclusive gaming media format.

Keep it mind that whatever this is, it's going to involve the current DVD drive every Xbox 360 is equipped with. So it can't be any of those since the current drives can't handle such things.

Signed up, I'm curious and also wouldn't mind a free copy of Halo Reach.