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Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the twelve-is-way-more-than-eleven dept.

Lucas123 writes "Today Sanyo said it has created a new blue laser diode with the ability to transfer data up to 12 times as fast as previous technologies. The laser, which emits a 450 milliwatt beam — about double that of previous Blu-ray Disc systems — can read and write data on discs with up to four data layers, affording Blu-ray players the ability to store 100GB on a disc, or 8 hours of high-definition video."

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  1. obligatory! (and more serious..) by apodyopsis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "man thats a lot of porn!"

    and on a more serious note, what would a normal PC user use this for?

    archiving video (see above)?

    archiving MP3, I guess not many people have >100GB of MP3s?

    an easy method of archiving an entire HDD in a few disks?

    when you look into it only video/HD makes such a disk make sense.

    and on a *much* more serious note, stop waxing lyrical about the storage capacity and start talking about the durability, its life span, its resistance to UV, its archival qualities. I would be much more interested in a 4GB disk that actually had a change of lasting >10 years in a normal environment (for me..? room temp, light sealed bag).