Pioneer Succeeds in Developing World's First 16-Layer 400GB (!!!) Optical Disc

[zachig]

July 7, 2008, Tokyo, Japan - Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*1. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc (BD). This multilayer technology will also be applicable to multilayer recordable discs. This development has bolstered Pioneer's confidence in the feasibility of a large-capacity optical disc, which is expected to become necessary in the near future.

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SOURCE (http://pioneer.jp/press/release193.html)

[PP Mguire]

One word. Nice. Screw Blu-Ray muahahah

[Sadasius]

Wow that would save on disks for backups. That is freakin awesome! They are truely the pioneer. Boldly going where no man has gone before.....Okay I'm done! :lol:

[srpeters18]

Um, it is Blu-Ray... Just like when DVD's when dual-layer, its Blu-Ray going 16 layer.

[PP Mguire]

Except bigger.

[srpeters18]

Nope, each layer is 25GB, just like Blu-Ray. They've just given it more layers.

[zachig]

Nope, each layer is 25GB, just like Blu-Ray. They've just given it more layers.
Yeah, but the maximum layer I know of in a regular DVD are 2 (Dual-Layer), so 16 layers are definitely awesome and you must admit that 400GB is a quite big capacity. :jawdrop:

[srpeters18]

Oh, I absolutely agree with you! I was just pointing out that this is still Blu-Ray

[zachig]

Oh, I absolutely agree with you! I was just pointing out that this is still Blu-Ray
Yeah, and I'm personally NOT going to buy any Blue-Ray DVD-Reader/Writer until prices will go down drastically...

[Methious]

I'd ike to see it on the open market but with a single Blu-Ray writeabe disk running as much as they are can you imagine what they want for a 16 layer disk?

[zachig]

I'd ike to see it on the open market but with a single Blu-Ray writeabe disk running as much as they are can you imagine what they want for a 16 layer disk?
Yeah, I'm not sure that a standard BluRay Player will support this kind of media (or to be exact, I'm pretty sure it WON'T). But I can only imagine which HD Games/Movies can be put on a 400GB Media! ;-)

[Goliath182]

Wow thats a big disc. Ive seen a concept to use discs as HDD's. Looks like they have the size they just need a way to make it able to rewrite a million times.