TDK inflates to BDXL, bringing 100GB writable Blu-ray discs in September
By Tim Stevens 
posted July 22nd 2010 8:23AM
posted July 22nd 2010 8:23AM
Why, it seems like only yesterday that 50GB was an awful lot of capacity. Now, not so much. BDXL discs are here to rescue your data, and TDK is the latest to roll out triple-decker discs with 100GB of capacity. As with the others, these discs will only work in BDXL-compatible readers and writers, meaning yet another early round of devices is in the process of being obsoleted. (Remember Profile 2.0?) These discs are set to ship in Japan in September, and sometime later will come the quadruple-decker BDXL discs with 128GB. We wonder, though: can a retail offering really be considered a "pack" if it only contains one disc?
Any word on double-sided discs? I honestly don't get why they are moving to BDXL when there are 10's of millions of players out that won't be able to read these discs. I know I WON'T be upgrading...
@MisterDBarton Yeah I'm thinking the same thing. If they want to preserve physical media, making players obsolete every year is not the way to do it.
@MisterDBarton
I don't get why they are doing this, I know I'm not upgrading either.
What happened to all the other large storage BD's that are compatible with the existing updatable blu-ray players? Down the gutter?
@MisterDBarton This is just going to put more customers off blu ray as it's yet another if or but to the spec just like profile 2.0. I can't see any movies being released on this format anyway even if 3D because it would exclude so many people and making 2 versions would confuse the matter.
Roll on all downloadable content.
@MisterDBarton
a Pack of 1 vs a pack of Hell's Angels. FIGHT!
*yawn* Spinning plastic media is dead.
@CodyTech
Not close. Until America gets an average of 10 mbs internet it will still be around.
Western Europe America,Canadaland, Japan,Korea. A good portion of these would have to ditch it to snowball the digital take over effect
@CodyTech
It's dead to me, LOL!
Yawn is correct, I've had a blu-ray burner for 1.5 years now and beside burning a blu-ray disc full of data just to test it out I have not used it since to burn a blu-ray disc.
I bet it takes probably 2+hrs to burn a 100GB blu ray disc. With external hard drives becoming so cheap, optical discs for storage is not needed
It's like a one man wolfpack.
I believe these increased blu-ray disc capacities are being introduced for the upcoming 3D movie titles.
@dmax These are not really for movies and such, just data backup. They already bumped up the spec a bit for movies, but it is through cramming more data onto each layer rather than adding more layers. This requires a new player with a different laser to read the 3rd layer, whereas what they have done for the 3D movies is, as far as I'm aware, already coming with the 3D bluray players.
Well I think it is good to have a solid media backup from time to time in a fire safe. I use my external 1TB hard drives all the time but one recently died and they sent me another that was broken. It is always safe to keep a good disc backup if you don't have a RAID setup I think. And for 100Gig of backup is pretty good on a disc to bad I don't have the player for it.
confered to real backup solutions this stuff is totally useless. i'm using LTO4 tapes to backup my video data, 30$ for ~1TB of data, very very reliable, hardware compression, very speedy @ 6gigs/minute. LTO5 is out now at twice the capacity and speed.
BDXL is dead & redundant before it was even released.
Man it would suck if the disk fail drying burning litterly would be burning your money away. I can live with 50gb , but 100gb disk will be expansive and that is an expensive coaster if it fails.
This disc would be useful for data backup, since it's even more portable than an external hard drive. It would also be a optical disc solution for 4K movies, which will take a while to become mainstream.
@Tothamax
A notebook hard drive is more portable. Especially, if you factor in capacity, a 1TB notebook hd, even in a small USB enclosure is much more portable(size and interface) than 8 or 9 of these discs.
Wow, I can fit my entire bangbros collection on 1 disc. Sweet
Considering how expensive 25gb bd-r's still are... you're just better off buying more hard drives. I have about 4tb of data now and its far cheaper just to have backup drives, two backups even. I would like to see a 4k movie spec with these though. 4k would never sell well, but I could see a substantial market similar to the market laserdisc and D-VHS had among videophiles. Of course... we'd need 4k projectors avalable too.
Is this an advantage fro game devs to be able to use the additional space, or is there some type of set "game" disc that they have to use in development for the PS3?