1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @05:12AM from the many-bytes-many-bits dept.

red_dragon writes "An article on The Register tells the news of an announcement of a new 1TB optical drive and disc that will be backwardly compatible with Blu-ray discs. The technology, developed by Call/Recall in partnership with Nichia, uses a rhodamine-type dye in a 200+-layer recording medium that gives off light when excited by a laser beam, along with a single fluid-filled lens to read multiple layers by varying the amount of fluid to change the focal length. The technology is designed to work with Nichia's blue-violet laser diodes, which are already used in Blu-ray drives."

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Re:Typo by kernowyon · 2008-05-28 05:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ooops - my bad! Having rtfm'd, it should be layer

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Excited... by denzacar · 2008-05-28 05:24 · Score: 1, Redundant

Que jokes on being excited by laser beams in 3..2..1...

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Re:Video uses by kootsoop · 2008-05-28 07:38 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's hard to imagine a single movie on a 1 TB disc.
Duke Nukem Forever will require three of these. There, fixed it for you.

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