TDK at work on 200GB Blu-ray Disc
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By Tony Smith
12th April 2006 10:32 GMT
TDK this week confirmed its plan to develop a Blu-ray Disc with a storage capacity of 200GB. If successful, the company's R&D effort will yield a disc with four times the capacity of today's biggest BDs and double the size of protoype next-generation BD-Rs TDK has already demo'd.
TDK showed off a 100GB BD prototype in May 2005. The 100GB disc contains four data-storage layers, is recordable and supports a write speed of up to 216Mbps, double that of 50GB BD-Rs.
It's expected to come to market next year, though with 50GB BD-R and BD-RE discs not yet shipping - media makers are now starting to push out single-layer, 25GB product - how soon that will be is open to question.
The launch timeframe of the 200GB disc - with eight layers, presumably - is even more uncertain. TDK simply said it was in the process of developing such a part, and didn't even hint when the prototype might appear, let alone commercially available product. ® -
Sony has already developed a 8-layer Blu-ray with the thickness of just 1 blu-ray disc. Stores a good 400GB. However, Sony is still considering whether or not to market it, since most people does not require such large memory on 1 memory unitOriginally posted by nightzip:By Tony Smith
12th April 2006 10:32 GMT
TDK this week confirmed its plan to develop a Blu-ray Disc with a storage capacity of 200GB. If successful, the company's R&D effort will yield a disc with four times the capacity of today's biggest BDs and double the size of protoype next-generation BD-Rs TDK has already demo'd.
TDK showed off a 100GB BD prototype in May 2005. The 100GB disc contains four data-storage layers, is recordable and supports a write speed of up to 216Mbps, double that of 50GB BD-Rs.
It's expected to come to market next year, though with 50GB BD-R and BD-RE discs not yet shipping - media makers are now starting to push out single-layer, 25GB product - how soon that will be is open to question.
The launch timeframe of the 200GB disc - with eight layers, presumably - is even more uncertain. TDK simply said it was in the process of developing such a part, and didn't even hint when the prototype might appear, let alone commercially available product. ® -
400GB is alot, even my office network server doesn't need that kind of memory for backup.
Somehow when they develop such radical ideas, do they think where their end users are going to come from? -
*stares at my 4 y/o desktop pc* Right... 400 GB...
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Home video. Its the hottest trend in western countries. People would tape anything down. For fun or for the passion.Originally posted by ditzy:400GB is alot, even my office network server doesn't need that kind of memory for backup. Somehow when they develop such radical ideas, do they think where their end users are going to come from?
And as video cameras are getting better, and special built computers now comes in AMD 64bit Dual Core with 8GB RAM and 320GB harddisk, it can be very simple to produce high quality home video, matching those in TV. Thus the filesize is naturally large.
And office files are usually Words doc or Databse spreadsheet, very small files