Pioneer 400GB Blu-ray disc

Jul 09, 2008 1103 hrs IST

Enter the 400GB Blu-ray disc. Now thats something to wait for

Have you filled up your external hard drives and even Blu-ray's 25GB seems insufficient for storage?

Pioneer, a Japanese electronics maker has been working on an optical disc which can store 25GB per layer. So what's the difference you ask? Their discs consist of 16 layers of storage for a total of 400GB on a single disc as opposed to the max of 50GB for a dual layer Blu-ray disc. Pioneer says that the lens specification for reading their discs could be close enough to blue-ray for them to maintain compatibility but they make no promises as yet. They plan to demonstrate the tech at an industry conference next week. For now it seems the disc is read only but they will obviously add write capability to it before its commercial release.

Credit: Cnet

USER COMMENTS

We in India have still not adapted to the Blyr ray Technology and are busy with VCDs, DVDs..............................

by nandu Girijan, mumbai, on Jul 11, 2008 04:35 PM, Report abuse Reply

it's a grate achievement in the field of computer science.

by DIBYAJYOTI NAND, BALASORE, on Jul 10, 2008 02:04 PM, Report abuse Reply

Yes really it?s a great achievement in optical storage medium,but I think this tech from pioneer as well as Blue Ray won?t last long. See another technology HVD which has already achieved storage capacity of 200GB in mid 2006. HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) is the next generation in optical disk technology. HVD is still in a research phase that would phenomenally increase the disk storage capacities over the currently existing HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical disk systems. According to published statistics, when produced in full scale, HVDs will have a storage capacity of 3.9 terabytes (39,000 GB) and a data transfer rate of 1 GB/s, which is at least six times more than the speed of DVD players. This would, without a doubt, become a giant step in revolutionizing the disk storage industry.Unbelievable isn't it.

by Raymonds, Riyadh-11444, on Jul 11, 2008 03:12 PM, Report abuse

let me see it

by kausik som, kolkata, on Jul 10, 2008 09:08 PM, Report abuse Reply

cool man, no need to upgrade my harddrive now

by Ahmad, Delhi, on Jul 10, 2008 08:08 PM, Report abuse Reply

What will be the cost in Indian Market for notebooks/Laptops

by Nitish Kumar, Bangalore, on Jul 09, 2008 03:13 PM, Report abuse Reply