Nothing against GE or any other vendor doing R&D work here, but call me back when the format reaches mass market numbers and traction, and when the media longev

Nothing against GE or any other vendor doing R&D work here, but call me back when the format reaches mass market numbers and traction, and when the media longevity and reliability and pricing are all better known. The numbers of optical and magneto-optical and tape other (now) dead-end drives and drive formats are legion. Even once-popular formats can get into trouble here. There are organizations that make their living rolling their critical data from one of these now-weird and now-archaic formats to another and more current format. And there's the occasional success with a particularly unusual format that gets publicized: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22-2009mar22,0,1783495,full.story http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22...