http://www.t3.co.uk/news/default.asp...bsectionid=753
It's "in development"
Quote:
Pioneer goes beyond Blu-Ray
The future's bright, the future's ultraviolet
Just when you thought that 25GB was a fairly decent size for an optical disc, it transpires that Pioneer is working on a technology that makes Blu-Ray's capacity seem rather underwhelming. According to a report in the Nikkei Business Daily, Pioneer is developing a new optical technique using ultraviolet lasers rather than rotten old blue ones and that should give us optical discs with a 500GB capacity.
The shorter wavelength ultraviolet beam can create data holes 70 nanometres apart and results in a data rate 20 times higher than Blu-Ray. Pioneer has yet to officially announce its new technology so there's no word on how long it'll be before you can actually buy one. But seeing as the capacity of a single disc is bigger than most of our hard drives, we're happy enough to wait a while for it.
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It's probably 10 year off. It's players will probably be compatible with blu ray disks but with 4 terabyte storage. But that's in 10 years or so :wink: