Goodness! A Blu-ray disc with 200GB!
by Nick Doerr 
{ Sep 1st 2006 at 11:30AM }
TDK promised a while back they were going to create a 200GB Blu-ray disc. So did they? Why, yes. Yes, they did. A single disc that's about 6.5 times the space on this particular laptop is in existence. It's amazing, it's wonderful, it's a large step forward, it's... completely worthless. Why? There's no drive or player that can read a 200GB disc. Oops. The disc itself is single-sided, but has six layers with 33.33 repeating GB's/layer.Is this too much, too fast? A few years ago we were pretty amazed with 8GB discs, let alone terabyte PC's. While having a disc with so much memory can have its advantages, you can't ignore the fact there's no way for it to be used until the hardware side of the deal takes form. Is hardware moving too slow, then? Either way, a few years from now, get ready to back up your entire life on a single disc. With holograms and stuff, too.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
apoc @ Sep 1st 2006 1:16PM
single sided? does it mean they could create a double sided 400GB BD? lol
boots @ Sep 2nd 2006 12:52PM
Old news, but by the way, there is also an 8-layer 200 GB being developed anyway, which could potentially be read, since each layer holds 25 Gigs.
Imagine the best Final Fantasy compilation of games on a single disc, with high definition cut-scenes, and bonus content such as soundtracks?
alienclay @ Sep 1st 2006 10:35PM
... the ps3 can't handle this. is this something that should have been on www.hdbeat.com instead?
Mark W @ Sep 2nd 2006 1:35PM
Finally, a disc that can fit the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy with all the extras!!!!