TDK Develops Mini Blu-ray Discs for HD Cams

[Jeff®]

http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/05/tdk...-for-everyone/

"Two Blu-ray developments from TDK today. The first is a 200GB, six-layer Blu-ray disc that can hold four times the amount of “movie” that you get with the current Blu-ray dual-layer discs. The other is an 8cm mini Blu-ray disc that holds 16.5GB and will be used in HD camcorders and other recordable media traditionally using mini DVD discs."

http://www.about-electronics.eu/2006...iscs-from-tdk/

8cm Blu-ray discs from TDK

"TDK has unveiled mini Blu-ray discs that measure a mere 8cm in diameter. These mini BD-R and BD-RE discs are currently being developed for commercialisation. The company hopes that future High-Definition camcorders which support Blu-ray media will pick these up. Naturally at a smaller dimension, these 8cm wide discs will come with a reduced capacity, clocking in at 16.5GB when compared against the standard 25GB single layer discs.
However, there’s still the possibility of dual-layer mini Blu-ray discs being developed in the future which will boast 33GB of storage capacity."

[phloyd]

This is really interesting if they play in the standard players (I wonder if the pitch is the same - it seems like too much capacity for the size)

Of course cost will be a factor also.

8cm BD > 12cm HD DVD ... hahah