. The new VR-100BR1 discs will use triple-layer fairy dust to squish 100GB of data inside, and Akihabara News reports that they'll be swiftly followed by quad-layer 128GB variants as well. Of course, every shiny new toy comes at a price, which in this case will be ¥5,000 per disc -- that equates to $57 and makes us wonder why we wouldn't just buy an external HDD with that cash.
Sharp 100GB BDXL discs appear in Japan
Posted on Friday, July 16 2010 @ 22:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget writes Sharp will debut the first 100GB BDXL discs by the end of the month in Japan. They'll be quite pricey though: