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Toshiba develops 36GB optical disc
With a huge industry support behind blue-laser disc technology I would say this will become the next step in optical storage after DVD, compare 4.7GB and 9.2GB (DVDs) versus 20+ gigs of capacity for an identically sized and shaped disc.
Toshiba has developed a dual-layer rewritable optical disc for use with the blue-laser-based AOD (Advanced Optical Disc) format that it is developing with NEC.
The disc -- which will be introduced at the Optical Storage 2003 conference in Vancouver, Canada, next week -- is the same physical size as a CD or DVD and is capable of storing up to 36GB of data. It is one of two rewritable disc types that make up the initial AOD format proposal, the other being a single-sided disc capable of storing 20GB. The AOD format also includes 15GB and 30GB read-only disc types.
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User Comments (2)
Post a comment| Rick on May 9, 2003 10:55 PM | Pushing an outdated technology to the edge... :(
Just like mechanical, IDE hard drives.
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| ---agissi--- on May 10, 2003 6:00 PM | You think in the future you will just use CDs are hard drives? Or would that be too slow to run off of?
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