TDK Launches the 25GB Blu-ray Disc with three Times the Current Media Speed

TDK, one of the leaders in optical discs manufacturing, recently announced, during the 8th Annual Data Storage Expo in Japan, that it intends to ship its latest development -the Blu-ray media rated at 6x - at the end of the current year, as it has also showcased the new 25GB Blu-ray disc, which delivers three times the current media speed, informs Daily Tech.

Unfortunately, TDK's innovation will not be able to run on anything but a finger, as the manufacturers intend to release 6x media compliant drivers theoretically in early 2007, but it just might happen to be shipped next summer.

"TDK was also showing off 100GB Blu-ray media which we reported on back in April. The 100GB media uses a 4-layer process which has spacer layers between. TDK's latest trend graph shows a maximum speed of 4x for 100GB media," comments Daily Tech.

TDK representatives talked again about the company's 200GB Blu-ray disc (BD), the world's highest optical disc capacity, a media released in early May.

In order to come out with this innovation, TDK has increased the capacity of all six disc layers by 32%, the layers having 33GB apiece, from the initial 25GB capability. Moreover, the disc is, in fact, an 8-layer media on a single side.

Apparently, the war featuring HD DVD standard and Blu-ray media was won by the latter, as it is almost impossible to increase HD DVD layers capacity from 50 GB to more than 200 GB using new media materials.