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"Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world." says Pioneer on their website today.
Each layer holds 25 gigabytes (the equivalent of one Blu-Ray disc). Having mulilayers on an optical disc has always been a hard thing to accomplish, but somehow Pioneer achieved 16 layers without having any crosstalk between them by using the same technology they developed in the DVD field. "Since the optical specifications of the objective lens, such as NA (Numerical Aperture), are the same as those for the existing BD discs, it is possible to maintain compatibility between the new 16-layer optical disc and the BD discs." That's good news. But word on the street says that it won't work in your new PS3. Great, now what new device do I have to buy just so I can watch a decent movie or play a decent game? We'll see where this goes.
Now when will this new technology be mass produced? Hopefully we'll find out July 13 when Pioneer will release details of this at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 (ISOM/ODS2008) in Hawaii.
Monday, July 7, 2008
2 Layers of Blu-Ray not enough? How about 16!
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How freakin' awesome is that. A read an article in WIRED magazine (If you've never flipped through an issue, you should) and it talked about this being the petabyte era. It's all about information. A couple other off topic comments- I love the new logo! And you should add Digg, reddit, Sphinn, etc. as well as some other social networking things to your site so that we can Digg the articles you fellas are cooking up! It'll also help your blog gain popularity.
Funny you should say that i'm actually working on that right now.
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