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Blu-Ray DVDs Hit 100 GB

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-movie dept.

Xesdeeni writes "According to The Register and MacWorld, TDK has unveiled a Blu-Ray DVD with four layers that will hold a whopping 100 GB of data. This is shortly after the previously reported HD-DVD announced three-layer HD-DVD that would hold a "mere" 45 GB. Unfortunately, this is also on the heels of the news that the HD DVD unification talks have stalled."

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  1. Whoop-de-doo. by pla · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh goody. 100GB per disc. It'll only take me eight of them to back up my files. I can hardly wait.

    Of course, no matter which format wins, home-burnable discs won't have support for more than one layer for another 5-8 years, at which time they'll still cost more than pressed discs loaded with content.


    Can we please stop dicking about with these useless incremental improvements in write-once offline-able storage media? Put ALL this crap to a halt until you can give me a holographic disc on which a high-end home user can do a complete back up. Currently that means 250GB would BARELY suffice (many of us would still need three or four of them), and a terabyte would actually make me happy... Even at $5 per disc, since I'd only need one per backup, I would consider that a suitable solution.

    I don't care if Blu-ray or HD-DVD wins. They both suck, and compared to modern HDDs, the proponents of each may as well try to reintroduce the 3.5" floppy for all the difference it would make.