TDK prototype Blu-ray Disc stores twice as much data

TDK prototype Blu-ray Disc stores twice as much data

TDK has announced that they have developed a prototype Blu-Ray disc capable of storing twice as much data as the current version of the same format disc. In fact, they have also developed the technology, which enables them to write on it twice as fast. This would make it a perfect medium for taking backups of huge quantities of data.

TDK unveiled this disc at an exhibition and claimed that it can be written on with speeds reaching 72Mbit/s, which is double the 36Mbit/s rate for current Blu-ray Discs. For achieving this, TDK has used a more powerful laser and made changes to the material of the disc’s recording layer.

The current generation discs have achieved enough recording speeds to suffice for recording high-definition TV broadcasts. Thus, higher speeds would be enticing to other fields where high capacity storage medium is very much in demand.

This announcement comes just a couple of days after Toshiba announced that they have developed a three-layer HD-DVD disc with the capacities of 45GB of information. However, with Sony announcing that their upcoming PlayStation 3 would come with support for Blu-Ray DVD Discs, it looks like the standard war would continue for sometime.