100gb blank disks

[cash29]

does anyone know when the 100gb blank media will come out ?

[MOONPHASE]

all i can say is not anytime soon probably not till like next year or 2010 at least

[cash29]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

all i can say is not anytime soon probably not till like next year or 2010 at least

yea but what gets me is there talking about 400 and 500gb disks now and i heard they would be ready till 2010-11, so why is it gonna be so late for the 100gb, i would ov thought somit would be out late christmas early new year.

[Qetyl]

I seem to recall reading about this - the basic technology is the same as Blu-Ray today - 25GB per layer. What they've figured out is how to stack more than 2 layers on a disk. 100GB obviously will have 4 layers, and the higher capacities even more, with talk of potentially reaching a terabyte. They should all work with newer BD drives, but they will likely require a firmware update to recognize and read/write more than 2 layers.

It actually looks very interesting to me, but I don't know the timeline - I'd assume they'll wait until they get the high-cap disks working, then send them to market all at once. Just my opinion though...

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

I understand the 100GB discs can be used for movies to increase quality but 500GB? Thats insane in the membrane! I think companies have gone over the edge if that happens.

[Barnum]

Why you can buy a hard drive for less than what that'll cost.

[cash29]

Originally Posted by Barnum

Why you can buy a hard drive for less than what that'll cost.

well a hard drive is just what it is and it has its limits, where as a blu-ray disk can be used in a computer and blu-ray player to plus its smaller and more portable, but soon they will have 5tb ext drives by next year to buy, so you have a choice.

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by cash29

does anyone know when the 100gb blank media will come out ?

Half the drive manufacturers still have issues writing to 50GB discs... and the manufacturers such as Panasonic who can do it reliably write to that media at far too low of a speed to be actually useful. I hate to think what would happen if they suddenly added two morw layers to the discs.

Although the tech demos have been very cool, we're still quite a bit away from the mass production of such discs. The media manufacturers and drive manufacturers are still going back and forth trying to get single-layered media to burn at high speeds with any consistency. The first uses of triple or quad-layer discs will be big business, for long-term backup purposes... so it seems more likely that UDO discs at the higher capacity will actually hit the market first (before BD-R/RE). Then, of course, there's the issue of the discs likely being unwriteable and unreadable in most current drives/players. The existing OPUs have been tested against dual-layered replicated media to make sure they can read the data well enough. The tolerance required for quad-layered PC-burned media will undoubtedly be much tighter, and I doubt anyone will even attempt updating existing drives to support the media.