Sony, Panasonic teaming to create 300GB optical disk

[Zac67]

Usually, this kind of news about storage technology could be interesting but
- there are no details whatsoever on why this approach is different from others, or what it is supposed to be compatible with
- Sony is known for late and unwieldy developments and/or announcing products that don't surface
- Pioneer demonstrated a 400 GB BD (largely) in 2009
- Sony already announced a 1 TB disc several years ago

[mikrucio]

I guess making regular old hard disks is "too hard" now.....

[Karlos]

Off-topic threads on Amiga.org? Say it isn't so!

In all the time I've been on Amiga.org and all the years I lurked before then, the site has always been about Amiga users and their interests first, rather than just about the platform. And in all that time, non-Amiga stuff has been discussed just as actively as Amiga-specific subjects by said users because believe it or not, they often share other interests in common.

[mingle]

The only good thing about this news is that you'd be able to fit all the software ever created for the Amiga on a single disc!

Come to think of it, you probably can on a Bluray already... :-)

Mike.

[Matt_H]

This is the optical disc technology I'd like to see commercialized. Sadly it seems to have been stagnant for a number of years.

[SysAdmin]

Usually, this kind of news about storage technology could be interesting but
- there are no details whatsoever on why this approach is different from others, or what it is supposed to be compatible with
- Sony is known for late and unwieldy developments and/or announcing products that don't surface
- Pioneer demonstrated a 400 GB BD (largely) in 2009
- Sony already announced a 1 TB disc several years ago

You're right about Pioneer, they showed this off in 2008. I missed hearing about it the first time around. I must have been in the Bahamas or something.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/pioneer-shows-off-16-layer-400gb-blu-ray-disc-affirms-compatibi/

It's great that its Bluray compatible too. The strange thing is no  another peep from them about it since 2008. They must have run into  technical issues or something.

Looks like Sony's 1 TB disc is still cooking in the lab.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/bluray-blu-ray-laser-tohoku-japan,10939.html