FSX, 5 years ago was shipped on 2 DVDs. With a few add ons my folder says it's taking up 18GB of which 12GB is scenery. In order to improve the scenery resolution in flight surely the scenery resolution needs to be upped by a factor of at least 2, and hopefully 4. As scenery resolution data size goes up with the square of the resolution then would indicate 50 to 200 GB of scenery data. Assuming data is compressed similar to FSX then we're still looking at more distribution size then is cost effective with DVDs. So would flight ship on Blue Ray or are we expected to download scenery?

If it shipped on blue ray wouldn't that mean everyone would need a blue ray drive to install the game?

I don't think we're at the stage where Blu-ray for PC are common yet, although it would make sense...esp. if Microsoft bought shares in the Blu-ray market before hand :(

No chance whatsoever of Flight shipping on BR. BR players are rare enough in the lounge, never mind on pc's. It will be DVD's, 2 to 4 of them will be my guess.

No chance whatsoever of Flight shipping on BR. BR players are rare enough in the lounge, never mind on pc's. It will be DVD's, 2 to 4 of them will be my guess.

I tend to agree - I think we're in danger of being constraind by DVD capacity. Takes me back to FS5 that introduced phtographic scenery but we only had it around Megs as were stuck with 1.4MB floppys. I suspect it's quite a bit cheaper to get users to download scenery rather then produce lots of DVDs?

The constraint is more with Joe the users patience who is gonna wonder if they really should give up an evening just to install this "game". The FSX install was long enough and that was just 2 dvd's. Pushing this to 4 is gonna be a stretch... Downloading scenery is fine for the (still) rather small percentage of users who are on speedy uncapped connections and who don't mind paying online for non-tangible digital products. For everyone else though downloading more that a couple of hundred mb's is still waaaaaaay out there. Boxed FS software far outsells digital to this very day, a rather troublesome fact which is often overlooked in these here woods when discussing what marketplace model MS will/should adopt for Flight.

Just checked. FS9 (2004) says minimum 1.8 GB of hard disk required.FSX (2006) says 15GB I hope we're not restricted in Flights scenery due to DVD distribution limits.Perhaps that's why we only see Hawawi in the demos - That's all that will fit on one DVD!

I hope we're not restricted in Flights scenery due to DVD distribution limits.Perhaps that's why we only see Hawawi in the demos - That's all that will fit on one DVD!

I guarantee you that this is not the case.

Who would have ever thought we would see someone market fsx photo scenery on an HD! Maybe a "sign of the times".

DVD distribution limits? What's that all about?

I don't think we're at the stage where Blu-ray for PC are common yet, although it would make sense...esp. if Microsoft bought shares in the Blu-ray market before hand

All new computers media drives can read blu-ray

DVD distribution limits? What's that all about?

I mean the amount of data that is practicle to distribute on a number of DVDs. Sorry, I should have been clearer.

Another option not entirely unheard of is USB flash drives. With pro audio software, we have ILOKS which stores a key to allow the program to run. I could see Microsoft utilizing this form of packaging. And then, making the USB a key required to run the program. http://www.flashbay....CFeUaQgodoh455g If we're starting a pool....fully installed. 21.6 gigs

According to some experts here, Flight is going to be store/web-based so all you are going to need is one 5 1/4 floppy and drive and rest will sit on some server somewhere. Better pull out those drives from all your old IBMs.

Maybe Flight will be supplied with optimised scenery only for the area you live in. So there could be a Flight Europe, a flight N America, a Flight S America etc, with the other parts of the world using a more default scenery. Most people tend to fly in the region they live because they understand the geography of the area. Later you can download/share the data from the other regions if you want to whether you pay for it or are able to share it from others who have Flight from a different region. Well it's one way I guess to reduce the number of DVD's required.