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Home A/V | by Samuel Axon | Tue Dec 2, 2008 3:21PM | 0 comments

Pioneer made an appearance at this year's IT Month Fair in Taipei, where it exhibited a prototype of a 16-layer Blu-ray disc that can store 400GB of data, about eight times as much as the discs on sale today. According to Digitimes, the invention was possible because of a breakthrough in material of reflective layers. The most impressive bit: Pioneer says it can be read by any old Blu-ray player, so no new hardware would be required. However, it's a fair guess that the discs themselves would be very expensive. The company expects to begin selling read-only discs in 2010, and ones that store up to a terabyte in 2013.

Company:
Pioneer
Glossary:
Blu-ray, Gigabyte, Terabyte
Around the Web:
external link 16-layer 400GB optical disc from Pioneer [CrunchGear]
external link 1TB Blu-ray Disc in the works [TechRadar: All Latest Feeds]
external link New 400GB Optical Disc Readable in Blu-Ray… [Gizmodo]
external link NEWS: Pioneer announces 400GB Blu-ray disc [Pocket-lint.co.uk]
external link Pioneer 1TB Blu-ray Disc in the works [TechRadar: All Latest Feeds]
external link Pioneer Parades 400GB Optical Disc [Ubergizmo]
external link Pioneer Shows 16-layer 400GB Optical Disc [Wired: Gadget Lab]
external link Pioneer shows off 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray… [Engadget]
external link Pioneer shows off 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray… [Engadget HD]
external link Pioneer's awesome 16-layer optical disc with… [Newlaunches.com]

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