The disc has a whopping 16 recording layers, where a 25GB Blu-ray has just one, and a beefed up 50GB Blu-ray is dual-layered. It also takes the same time to read one layer of TDK’s product as it does a Blu-ray disc. The only problem? The new disc’s recording layers are about 2.5 times as thick as they need to be to be compatible with Blu-ray specifications. Also: figuring out how to stuff that much bonus content in to make it worth selling movies on these things.
Worth noting too that it’s going to be a looooong time before these actually show up at retail. But when they do, I’m looking forward to burning a Lord of the Rings/Star Wars/Godfather trilogies mega marathon. [Tech On]
lamboman007
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:08 AMBy the time these come out, you might need a few of these discs. SuperHD might be out meaning even larger movie files, Star Wars sequel trilogy might be out, and the Hobbit films will be out.
(I don’t know anything about the Godfather films)
:D
TheBlack
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:19 AMYes because I would like to backup that much data onto an optical disc to only have the filament layer scratched… Ruining the entire disc and losing everything.
matt h
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:51 AMYes TheBlack, because I’d be scraping a blu-ray archive disc along the concrete. BDs have much much better scratch protection than DVDs. Having said that, none of my DVDs have scratches anyway. I think some people use theirs as frisbees to let the dog catch in its teeth. Or tap dance on with its claws.