Pioneer exhibits 400GB blu-ray optical disc

[Sean]

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Pioneer has developed a 16-layer 400GB optical disc, which it is exhibiting at the IT Month fair taking place in Taipei. According to Pioneer, its 16-layer disc uses a breakthrough in the...

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[shaolin007]

“However, if Pioneer could develop recordable 400GB versions with a reasonable price per Gigabyte, they would be an ideal way of backing up one’s complete media centre content on just a few discs”

I would be interested but I am not going to pay a hundred dollars for a disc. $5 for a disc would get me to bite.

[ferd]

Wow, just think of all the extra commentary they could put on a movie disk with all that room!

[guest]

No wonder companies are going broke, since their R & D depts spend so much time chasing their tails with crap like this. A single layer disc costs $8, a dual layer disc cost $38. How about working on that one for a while?

This will never make it to the shelves. Is Hollywood going to start putting 15 movies on one disk? Puhleeeze!

[applegodel8]

actually 15 movies ain’t bad. Imagine all of the james bond films on 1 disc!!! i would love that. i love sets i would love “i love lucy” series all on one disc, in fact this disc would be great for tv content, you could put an entire HD tv series on one disc! man if you could make a reliable RW disc you could use it as a large Hardrive. 1TB is what i would kill for, so i can back up my movie hard drives! so i could buy less hard drives, that would be so cool!

[Vbritt]

I would be interested if this disc can be read and written to in existing burners. If you have to buy a new burner it might be hard to justify the cost with prices like they are now. Blu-ray is simply too expensive for the benefits you get.

[guest]

“Pioneer exhibits 400GB blu-ray optical disc”…and it’s only 2 inches think…