Advanced Blu-ray BDXL announced

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The Blu-ray Disc Association has released a high-capacity format that more than doubles the amount of storage from the previous generation of discs.
Called BDXL, the specification enables up to 128 GB of storage on write-once Blu-ray discs and 100 GB on rewritable discs.

The latest format is aimed initially at creative professionals and the broadcasting and medical industries, which are in need of more capacity for archiving large amounts of data, video, and graphic images. The association said discs should be available in the market in the next few months.

However, the higher number of layers require a more powerful laser, so the new format is not backward compatible with current hardware used to record data or play today's Blu-ray movies.

The above has been extracted from:
Blu-ray Goes High Capacity -- Storage -- InformationWeek

 

[sachin_k5]

Here are another new disc technology which claims to hold 1000GB

New Disc Could Hold A Thousand Times More Data - Technology News - redOrbit

I guess we are getting ready for 3D movies on disc :yahoo:

 

[deba]

When will it end..........

 

[spirovious]

When Bluray was lauched,it was said to develop 4 layer of Bluray which can store 100GB.

 

[adder]

When Bluray was lauched,it was said to develop 4 layer of Bluray which can store 100GB.

I remember TDK developing 100gb or so disc,well before the blu ray won the format war .yet we don't see them in the stores nor are they cheap