TDK to develop 200 GB Blu-ray Disc
If the industry does start developing 100 or 200 GB Blu-ray discs, and the competing HD-DVD companies cannot up their disc beyond 30 GB, then this “format war” might be over before it’s began.
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that the next generation DVD players are involved in a format war, with Java ME right smack dab in the middle. Java ME will be used to provide interactivity to Blu-ray players, which is supported by Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, and most studios except Universal. The competing platform, Toshiba’s HD-DVD, will use HTML and Javascript and is supported by Microsoft.
TDK this week confirmed its plan to develop a Blu-ray Disc with a storage capacity of 200GB. If successful, the company’s R&D effort will yield a disc with four times the capacity of today’s biggest BDs and double the size of protoype next-generation BD-Rs TDK has already demo’d.
TDK showed off a 100GB BD prototype in May 2005. The 100GB disc contains four data-storage layers, is recordable and supports a write speed of up to 216Mbps, double that of 50GB BD-Rs.