Pioneer develops world’s first 16-layer disc with 400 GB capacity
- July 7th, 2008
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Today Pioneer announced [JP] they - as the first company in the world - managed to develop a 16-layer optical disc with a capacity of 400 GB. In other words, each layer boasts the capacity of a 25 GB Blu-ray disc currently available for retail.
Pioneer said the new discs will be compatible with existing Blu-ray hardware but are read-only at the moment. The company is currently trying to develop recordable discs offering the same capacity. Pioneer succeeded in reducing noise coming from adjacent layers through a special kind of disc structure. The company said they drew on experiences gathered in the manufacturing of DVDs.
The prototype of the read-only version will be showcased during the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 to be held in Hawaii from July 13.
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2008-07-07 07:53:24
400GB…..
That is Way too Much for a disk….
They days will come when we will be using these discs to store Super High definition Videos.
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