TDK presents 100GB Blu-ray disc

Posted on Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 22:57 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TDK unveiled a prototype of a Blu-ray disc with double the capacity and double the write speed of the current Blu-ray discs. The disc stores 100GB and can record data at 72Mbps.

To achieve the higher capacity, TDK added two additional recording layers to the disc to take it up to four layers. Blu-ray Disc stores 25GB on each recording layer and the standard currently includes single layer and dual layer versions.

More info at MacWorld

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