HD DVD's 51GB triple layer disc announcement

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HD-DVD goes beyond 50GB with new disc

CES 2007 Coverage
By Henning Molbaek
FIRST PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2007
Toshiba has announced a new 51GB HD-DVD Rom disc at this year's CES.

Beating Blu-ray by 1GB, Toshiba today said that they had successfully created a triple layer HD-DVD disc that could contain 51GB worth of data with 17GB on each layer.

"Continued improvement in disc mastering technology has achieved further minimization in the recording pit, supporting a further boost in capacity to 17GB in single layer and a full 51GB on a single-sided triple-layer disc. Toshiba has confirmed the disc structure and its successful operation." said the press release. "This time-tested physical structure offers proven volume manufacturing at little cost increment."

Toshiba has now closed the storage gab with Blu-ray, which can store 50GB on a dual-layered disc. It will be exciting to see if this has any effect on the raging format war. Stay tuned.

For whatever it's worth, this is an interesting news. I don't know it's implications with the format war, or how realistic its implementation with the current HD DVD players would be, but it is a noteworthy announcement nonetheless.