TDK shows off 100GB Blu-ray drives

Posted on Friday, January 06 2006 @ 0:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Inq writes TDK is showing off Blu-ray disks at CES 2006 with a capacity of 100GB.

Its Blu-ray discs can sport four layers, each able to store 25GB pre layer. That gets you to whopping 100GB.

At this point HD DVD is limited to 30GB or 15GB per layer on its two layers. In Dual sided discs may up total capacity to 60GB.

However, it will still take a couple of years before these drives and disks will be available.

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