TDK announces 100GB Blu-ray disc
Just a few days after Toshiba introduced a 45GB HD-DVD, TDK has gone all crazy on us and announced a 100GB recordable Blu-ray disc. TDK's disc has four layers and apparently doubles the writing speed of 50GB Blu-ray discs. No word yet on when these'll hit the market, or what sort of per disc cost we're looking at.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NBK @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
I've read that Sony made a 200Gig 8 layer bluraydisc.
FIRST POST!!!!!
Urban @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
You sure about that 1st post there bud? ;)
WVGeek @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Just as I said earlier today regarding the Blu Ray technology...
24. Posted May 19, 2005, 1:18 PM ET by WVGeek
Andy I care because while it doesn't appear the two have big differences they actually do. Blue Ray has anywhere from a 'decent' amount of extra space to nearly double the space. Furthermore it's rumored that Blue Ray may be capable of expanding on their size greatly.
ishould @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Frankly until I can see the prices on discs and until the prices of the drives drop to below $500 I don't care much. If the discs right now cost $50 its not very fesable to impliment this into the PS3, but I'm sure sony has factories that can produce the discs at nearly the same price of the dvd. I don't understand why it costs all that much more to produce the actual disc besides the laying of the extra data space. I gotta do my homework on multi-layer and optical storage in general
chrisp @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
very impressive, but... probably costs a fortune. very unreasonable for sony.
Connor @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Why do I even need a hard drive?
Patrick @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
I think they are gonna stab them selves in the foot, the price for each disc not to mention drives is going to be high.
Will @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
""I don't understand why it costs all that much more to produce the actual disc besides the laying of the extra data space.""
The Keyword in this product is S-O-N-Y.
Personally im cheering for HD-DVD because for one, its not owned by Sony which has a bad history of slapping high prices on technology.
Every since BETA and 8TRACK Sony has been trying too release a medium in which people well have to purchase. If Blu-Ray wins, we all loose. Just like the middle east controls oil, Sony East well control Data Medium.
Oh and I forgot too mention that the Data Layer on a blu-ray disc is only 0.01mm from the surface as apposed too 0.07mm in a regular DVD. So if you thaught DVD's were fragile, wait till this crap gets a scratch on it.
Pacey @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Ummm, 50 states.
Connor @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
You missed opposed as opposed to apposed. If you're going to be snarky about other people's grammar and spelling then you should probably do it right yourself, and catch everything. You're missing a few commas, and English should be capitalized as it is a proper noun.
MegaZone @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Will, you really need to check you facts.
1. Blu-ray is controlled by the Blu-ray Association and not Sony. Sony is just one member, Blu-ray uses intellectual property for a number of major vendors, especially Pioneer. If want to call BD Sony tech, you may as well call HD-DVD Toshiba tech since they're the primary backer of HD-DVD like Sony is for BD. There are actually *more* players involved in developing BD than HD-DVD, HD-DVD is almost entirely Toshiba and NEC.
2. Blu-ray data is sits on a 1.1mm substrate with a .1mm optical coating. The coating, developed by TDK IIRC, is MUCH harder than the surface of a DVD and much harder to scratch. It is also better optically. DVD is made with two .6mm thick sides back-to-back.
BD can also be made with a .6mm substrate with a DVD surface, then a .5mm layer, the BD surface, and the .1mm coating. This allows for a hybrid, single-side disc which is both a BD and DVD-9 disc.
There are 2 HD-DVD hybrids. One is dual-sided, HD-DVD-30 on one side, DVD-9 on the other. Fairly low-tech. The other is a DVD-5 layer and a HD-DVD-15 layer on a single-sided disc. Any way you cut it, BD is technologically superior.
There is no reason you couldn't do a dual-sider BD disc as well. But - Why?
For -R/RW use BD is even better than HD-DVD. You can get 50GB BD-R or BD-RE. HD-DVD-R is limited to 20GB on a single layer, with efforts to develop a 32GB dual-layer disc still in progress. This TDK announcement pushes BD to *100GB* of home recording capacity, good luck with HD-DVD ever getting close.
Still think HD-DVD is better for consumers?
themulf @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Lets not forget that Phillips and Sony brought on the CD format. Beta was a good and compairable format, but its death had more or less to do with business.
Kendall @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
wow, I cant even imagine having 100gb disks...Hard drives would almost become obsolute..Who would need one when they could have a disk with about the same amount of storage.
Darren Cornwell @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
100gb! I can still remeber back to the days of the old Amstrad with it's two floppy drives and if you were lucky a 21mb Hardcard shoved in the back. Data storage is advancing at a fantastical rate, I'm sure that in a few years, we'll all be saying 'Gee, in 2005 all we had was a 100gb discs, couldn't even fit a game on that now!'
Permanent4 @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Kendall -- you can't fit a Blu-Ray disc in an iPod mini, and 3.5" hard drive space is less than $0.50/GB these days. Which means DVRs will be cheaper and more functional than Blu-Ray video recorders.
It's nice to see optical discs hold a lot more data, but they're never going to replace hard drives.
W.ll.am @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
re:14 and 15
Don't forget Canada and Iraq :P
fotoflave @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
I hope this get Blue Ray in consumer (& professional) hands asap. Unalterable archiving of 100GB of my photo library on a disc sounds *really* appealing (swimming in lake of DVD-Rs)
Kojiro @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Yeah, I agree that no optical disc will ever replace Hard drives, They will always have better read/write speeds and greater storage (they even go into TeraBytes now, look at the LuCia Hard Drive) due to the fact they are not as portable, require thier own set of power, have a plated disc inside they they don't have to worry about making scratch proof and it can be layered just as easily... I thnk next gen Hard Drives, will be like the external ones, but a little smaller and thier own source of power, possibly even from an form of vibration, light, sound, color... they are all vibrations in the fabric of our dimensions, and they do contain kinetic energy, it would be an easy feeding source of power, even how frail amount it is...
Urban @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
TDK announces 100GB Bly-ray disc >
I think you meant Blu? :P
NBK @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
I was, how about this
FORTH POST!!!!!!
Blaze @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
OMG 5th BOLOLOLOL!!@!@#@!!!!oneoneone!
Jeremy @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
I am 8th.
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Chas @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
Hey Will,
How about learning english, before you go trying to teach us something? English is fairly standard around here (USA). "Too" means "also". "Well" means "good" or could also be a source of water. "Loose" would be the opposite of tight.