Hitachi's 100GB Blu-ray disc drive

by Thomas Ricker posted Oct 3rd 2007 at 3:35AM

Sure, it's just a prototype for now, but we can't help but feel a bit smitten with any drive capable of playing 100GB of data off a single 4-layer optical disc. The BD camp was also touting 200GB, 8-layer discs as they have since 2004 (at least) while showing off the components that will usher in 8x performance (double-that of existing commercial gear) in a more realistic timeframe. When that might be exactly, no one's willing to say.

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, Players, Recorders, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sony

Tags: 100gb, 200gb, 4-layer, 8-layer, blu-ray, ceatec, hitachi, prototype

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Dave @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:19AM

Yeah!
This one drive with the extreamly durable Panasonic 100GB Blu-ray media is the ultimate dream i have!

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smee @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:29AM

Wow, now we can watch a movie and have 90GB to spare, just what we need

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A1 @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:48AM

you really have no idea how this all works do you?

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smee @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:45AM

Is suppose your going to give me the data storage sermon now eh, and tell me how much better that is then say a USB back up hard drive? Or is it one of the other BR fanboy sermons, eg "more headroom" bullshit, let's see which one it is.

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John B @ Oct 3rd 2007 8:56AM

Um ... right. Because there is absolutely no other reason for BD than movies. Data archiving/backup is a totally off-the-wall idea for these. *sigh*

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Dave @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:24AM

Sorry smee, but A1 is right. You have no idea what you are talking about :)
Find another place to troll please...

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domerdel @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:11AM

This will be great in the future when TV series are released... "1 Disc"

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Anthony @ Oct 4th 2007 11:20AM

Hey now don't get too excited HD DVD has a 51GB Disk....lls...fail.

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A1 @ Oct 3rd 2007 12:35PM

good comeback, i feel so small, you really got me with that one. :) I thought you might have come back and shown that maybe you did know something about this but you didn't, validating my first point even more. Thank you.

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julian @ Oct 3rd 2007 7:26PM

i love how they display discs and the drives and even in proses or burning but yet t51 has never seen anythign like this:P

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