New Reseach Makes DVDs 1,000 Bigger Than Blu-ray
There’s some potential good news to those of you who haven’t upgraded to Blu-ray: new research by Japanese scientists may increase the storage capacity of DVDs so much that the discs could hold much, much more data than a Blu-ray disc. The new technology would eliminate any need to upgrade to the new movie format, so you won’t have to buy Office Space again.
Lead by chemistry professor Shin-ichy Ohkoshi, the new process creates DVDs with 1,000 times the storage capacity of a Blu-ray disc by painting a layer of titanium oxide variant onto the disc. The material switches back and forth between the metal and semiconductor states at room temperature when exposed to light, creating an “on/off” switch that’s ideal for data storage.
The professor is in talks for commerical applications of his discovery, although there’s no word when this potential “super DVD” technology might hit the market.
Source: Gizmodo
