All new computers media drives can read blu-ray

Really? A new DVD drive can read Blu-ray? Cool

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.

I actually kind of like this idea.

I actually kind of like this idea.

+1 Me too, sounds reasonable.

Hey All, I don't expect Flight to require a vast amount of hard disk space, atleast nothing larger than 20GB.I base this on the fact that if they are aiming for the casual user, these user's will not have the computers with vast amounts of hard disk space available. That said though, X-Plane requires 60GB+ of hard disk space (if the user wishes to play across all parts of the world) and uses 6 DVD disks. The problem with downloading scenery, on such a huge amount is that many people have download limits and speeds, therefore downloading such scenery (on such a large scale) would either use up their download limits or could take longer to download and install than by installing though the use of DVD, depending on the person's download speed. Be interesting to see, but I would reckon no more than 20GB will be used and that this will be placed on DVD format across a maximum of 4 disks. Virtual Reality

Hey All, I don't expect Flight to require a vast amount of hard disk space, atleast nothing larger than 20GB.I base this on the fact that if they are aiming for the casual user, these user's will not have the computers with vast amounts of hard disk space available. That said though, X-Plane requires 60GB+ of hard disk space (if the user wishes to play across all parts of the world) and uses 6 DVD disks. The problem with downloading scenery, on such a huge amount is that many people have download limits and speeds, therefore downloading such scenery (on such a large scale) would either use up their download limits or could take longer to download and install than by installing though the use of DVD, depending on the person's download speed. Be interesting to see, but I would reckon no more than 20GB will be used and that this will be placed on DVD format across a maximum of 4 disks. Virtual Reality

Where have you been? the cheapest computers come with 1 TB hard drives ... plus the casual user was always the target so dont expect flight to be smaller because of your rationale ...

How much space does a text document containing a link to the Flight Store take up, 1 KB or 2?

How much space does a text document containing a link to the Flight Store take up, 1 KB or 2?

Well Jim That sort of resolves that I had better start seriously thinking about broadband .Any thoughts on what speed we would need ?? RegardsTas

Dial up will be fine or even Pony Express because nothing is going to be web based except weather and multi-player just like FS9 and FSX.

So I'm paying £40 p/month for 40MB unlimited fiber broadband for nothing?!

No, you get to visit with us.

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?

WOW, 1.4mb. Thats huge. you could fit a whole OS on that.