14 DAY TRIAL // The BDXL format has been up and running for a while now, and with actual writing units for such products now selling globally, Panasonic figured it was time to step up and unleash its first rewritable disks of this sort.
By last year, the Blu-ray disk format had still not actually come close to replacing DVDs on the mainstream, mostly because of price issues.
As such, one might say it was rather surprising to hear of the new disk standard, called BDXL, which promised much more storage space.
Basically, through special layering techniques, a disk could come to have 100 GB or even 128 GB of storage space.
Ever since the standard was made public, makers of optical disk drives have delivered BDXL drives, with or without writing capabilities.
As for the disks themselves, they have, so far, only made it into the hands of a low number of PC owners. They should, eventually, be employed for larger PS3 games, but nothing of the sort has, so far, occurred.
Now, Panasonic has decided to cater to users' needs for actual disks, going so far as to provide its first rewritable model.
It is a triple-layer BD-RE XL disk which should fit in with user preference to not have to buy overly many disks of this sort.
Granted, being rewritable, it costs more than standard ones which, in themselves, are very expensive for most budgets.
More specifically, the newcomer will sell for 10,000 yen one it starts selling in Japan, on April 15. That sum is the equivalent of $118.
Among the companies with BDXL burners that support the disks are Buffalo, I-O Data and Pioneer. Of course, at that price, it will fall to prospective customers themselves to decide what the benefits are for buying this kind of disk instead of a flash drive or external hard disk drive.