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Writing BDXL Disks Possible with Pioneer's New Blu-Ray Writer

Since it is just a matter of time before the BDXL format becomes more accessible to the masses, Pioneer figured it would speed things up by a tiny bit by bringing out what it calls the first Blu-ray writer that can scribe onto them (though Buffalo might disagree).For those that do not remember or have not yet learne...

10 December 2010
05:33 GMT

TDK Trumpets 1TB Optical Disk Prototype

Even though the BDXL specification was supposed to be the one that defines the currently most capacious optical disks, TDK seems to have completely shattered that idea with the prototype it brought over to CEATAC Japan 2010 last week.For those interested in a reminder, the BDXL specifications defines Blu-ray disks w...

11 October 2010
09:10 GMT

Sony Laser Enables 1TB Optical Disks

It was just a short while ago that Sharp announced its first BDXL Blu-ray disks, with a capacity of 100GB and, soon after, TDK revealed its own plans to join this movement. Later, once the first batch of disks starts selling, the two hope to move on to 128GB disks. Needless to say, these capacities are nothing to be ...

24 July 2010
04:08 GMT

Superdisk Is 1,000 More Capacious than Blu-ray

Currently, Blu-ray disks are the most capacious optical storage media available on the market, but even they have reached a point where they are barely capable of housing the newest PS3 games. Indeed, Sony and Panasonic did announce plans to increase capacity to 33.4GB per layer. A certain team of Japanese researcher...

26 May 2010
04:17 GMT

One TeraByte of Data Stored on an Optical Disk

A not so well known name in the computer industry is Israel-based Mempile company; they have proven that up to 250 hours of HD programming or one terabyte of information can be stored on a sigle, DVD-sized optical disk. This has been achieved through their TeraDisk technology, which allowed them to record 500GB of da...

29 March 2007
04:56 GMT


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