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Poineer Anounces 500GB Discs

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Pioneer ultraviolet laser promises 500GB disks

Outrays Blu-ray

By INQUIRER staff: Monday 08 November 2004, 07:54

JAPANESE HARDWARE maker Pioneer has developed a technique which will allow optical drives to store 500GB of data.
That's according to the Nikkei Business Daily, which reported that the technique will use ultraviolet lasers, which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers.

The paper reported that Pioneer uses the beam to write data holes in a master disk, each separated by 70 nanometres.

That gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk. While there are technical problems creating data cavities so small, Pioneer has, apparently, solved problems associated with scattering of the laser by developing a carbon mask using photosensitive resin. µ

Wow! Finally I can store all my stolen music, stolen movies, and stolen porn all on one compact optical disc! Amazing.

Re: Poineer Anounces 500GB Discs

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Originally posted by Starbucks
Wow! Finally I can store all my stolen music, stolen movies, and stolen porn all on one compact optical disc! Amazing.

Be sure not to accidentaly use it as a coffee cup coaster then...

You forgot stolen software and stolen music videos too.

That sounds like heaven on a bun. Now if they can only make them out of corn.... that would be perfect.

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Originally posted by S-uper_T-oast
Now if they can only make them out of corn.... that would be perfect.

LOL :blah:

But what kind of super drive would you need to burn to that format?

The Inquirer? Isn't that a supermarket tabloid?

You're thinking of the Enquirer. The Inquirer is a tech-talk news site.

You can store about 55 DVD images in one of these discs, assuming all the movies you store are 9GB each. If you tried to cram 4.7GB movies on one 500GB disc...damn cool. I get many coupons in the mail for any movie rental for only $1, then I rip them and put them on my hard disks. So far there are 40+ DVD's on my hard drives. :D