Sony Ships 50 GB Blu-ray Recordable Media

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited August 2006 in Science & Tech
Sony has started shipping 50 GB Blu-ray recordable media in the United States of America. The dual-layer disc is double the capacity of the single-layer 25 GB media. So far, the 50 GB versions are only available as BD-R write-once discs; Sony said that it will be offering rewritable media (BD-RW) "later this year."
The capacity increase foremost means more storage space for data or movies. However, the new media will be important in for the Blu-ray group in promoting the technology against the competing HD DVD format: The higher capacity will allow movie studios to put more data on a Blu-ray disk to increase the quality of Blu-ray movies. Sony claims that a 50 GB disk can hold four hours of 24 Mb/s video - substantially higher than the VC-1 compressed 15-18 Mb/s the first HD DVD movies and the estimated 10-12 Mb/s currently available Blu-ray movies are using.
Source: TG Daily

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    For only a $1 per gig!
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    For only a $1 per gig!

    I thought they were more more than that. Aren't the 25GB disks $50 smacks?
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    No... lol I have found a few for $18.99 per disc :) which is about $77 cents a gig.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Which is worse than high-end hard drives.
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