14 DAY TRIAL // Since 4K-capable displays seem to be so popular already, more so than even 3D panels were when their time came last year, the matter of media had to be addressed, and the Blu-ray Disc Association thinks it has a solution.
Truth be told, it's likely that everyone saw it coming: Blu-ray disks being used to propagate films in resolution of 2840 x 2160 pixels.
After all, Blu-ray disks continue to be the most capacious optical media on the market, and the type of storage means most used in the proliferation of games, movies, music, etc.
Well, maybe not music, since CDs are more than enough for every new album of whatever band, but that's the only debatable point.
Anyway, a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association has made a press release where it says that 4K content would be provided on 100 GB triple-layer disks.
These disks aren't new themselves. They came to be quite some time ago, when the Association not only perfected the process of making three-layer disks, but also increased the data density for each layer from 25 GB to 33 GB.
The disks are made by Singulus, and its announcement is actually quite premature, since the BD Association hasn't formally announced the new specification yet.
On that note, there won't just be 100 GB disks. Presumably, the BDA is also developing disks with a capacity of 300 GB.
Those will only be used by enterprise users though, and they'll have to give good reasons why prospective buyers shouldn't just get an external hard drive or SSD instead, or some other sort of storage device. But we digress.
A new high-density Blu-ray disk should work in favor of 4K display makers (UHD TVs) and purveyors of media players and HTPCs. Not right away though, since it's unlikely for the format to gain traction when 4K TV broadcasts and film selling are still in testing stage.