Pioneer Increases Disc Size to 500GB

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Originally Posted by tron3

The more layers you add, the more prone it is to error in manufacture.

There is no reason we can't see a BD75, or BD100 in the meanwhile.

Even BD75 or BD100 has very little potential for consumer applications. Typical consumers see more "value" in multi-disc sets than they do in single-disc sets with a ton crammed onto it. Also, chances are it will remain cheaper to manufacture 2 BD50s than a single BD100.

Originally Posted by haushausman

The BD500 will mostly likely be used only for data storage purposes only. It will remain on the PC side of things far after it is fully developed.

Exactly. People need to stop thinking of this as a way to get all 6 Star Wars movies onto a single disc. It's just not going to happen. This is for industrial use only, and for backing up large amounts of important data. In that sense, its a great breakthrough. In the consumer sphere, its essentially irrelevant.

It will still be interesting to see if Sony and others try to market this a corporate solution over the existing UDO solution (which was basically the first "blue-violet" laser based medium Sony created. Maybe Pioneer is trying to become a player in the enterprise market? I really don't know.