Monday, December 1st 2008
Pioneer Showcases Super Multi-Layer Disc
Pioneer showcased its high density multi-layer optical disc at the IT Month fair in Taipei, Taiwan. The optical disc uses the same protocol as that of the Blu-ray disc, except for that Pioneer perfected its material technology of reflective layers, that allows for 16 separate layers of 25 GB each on a single side of the disc. Blu-ray discs in production facilitate only two parallel layers making for a maximum of 50 GB storage space per disc. The 16 layers on Pioneer's disc would make for 400 GB.
The specifications of the pick-up head (PUH) of the disc is the same as those for the PUH of blank BD discs, and therefore the Pioneer discs can be read on any of the Blu-ray disc players in production, the company said. In its current form, the media is in a read-only (burn/press once) format, and could reach production anywhere between 2008 and 2010, with re-writable media slated for 2010~2012, and even denser 1 TB discs in 2013, according to the company's internal roadmaps.
Source:
DigiTimes
The specifications of the pick-up head (PUH) of the disc is the same as those for the PUH of blank BD discs, and therefore the Pioneer discs can be read on any of the Blu-ray disc players in production, the company said. In its current form, the media is in a read-only (burn/press once) format, and could reach production anywhere between 2008 and 2010, with re-writable media slated for 2010~2012, and even denser 1 TB discs in 2013, according to the company's internal roadmaps.
24 Comments on Pioneer Showcases Super Multi-Layer Disc
nice to see some innovation
sweet!
Really cool to hear. Especially the backwards compatibility. Hope to ear more about this in the future.
no average guy is gonna sit there for half a day burning 1 400GB disk....
Would you kick her out of your bed???
Well played sir.
Unless - shes 'half cast' which judging by her skin tone is very possible but i could be wrong -
otherwise they are contacts - Asian Orientals especially chinese/japanese/koreans, malaysian/thai/vietnamese etc etc are born with brown eyes unless otherwise. but i get the feeling their contacts because I had a cousin who wore the exact same colours before -
it looks attractive, yes - but i get a feeling that its 'un-natural' so to speak.
a Prime example would be that most non oriental people wouldnt know the difference between Japanese & chinese until we spoke or told them. because as some americans put it - 'we all look the same'
but me being chinese I can tell almost instantly if their thai, chinese, japanese or whatever.
its in our blood. i cant really explain - sometimes is facial or bodily features or characteristics which are 'native' to certain countries - such as Japan is well known for its petite women which can give the game away.
I could carry on rambling about this stuff but i wont because this is not the kinda forum for that.
- They're priced competitively (with external HDD's for example)
- Read/Write speeds are comparable to the average external HDD (e-sata included)
- Writers are affordable.
- RW discs can be written to many times without error.
- Other things I forgot.
I really don't think these will replace external hdd's, except maybe for making backups. And by the time these are affordable and mainstream, SSD's will probably be a lot cheaper and be available in greater capacities.
www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9053822