Sony, Panasonic teaming to create 300GB optical disk

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I would venture to say 300GB optical disks could be used on Amiga's too. We will work to keep Amiga.org 99% Amiga oriented like it usually is. Thanks for the feedback. If you are counting the Bing search results thread as not Amiga related then you would be wrong. That thread is about how Bing fails to show Amiga computers when you search Amiga using their image search. So that gives us only two threads that are not Amiga related on the front page.

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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