Japanese researchers at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials allegedly have a DVD that is 9 times the size of a normal disc. The DVD can hold 42GB of information. To achieve this, they had to modify the design of a normal disc by morphing the disc into a V-Shaped disc rather than a flat pit one. Even though these discs are new, and hold a lot more data, I can see them selling cheap and CDs going back up in sales. Basically you would either be buying a massive storage disc, or need to transfer something and you don’t want to use the 42, so you go with 800MB. If this disc is really true, this is an awesome feat by researchers to develop something as big as this.
Although the disc has many good features there are some drawbacks. The disc’s method will not be compatible with the Blu-Ray discs. Also, they will not work in the current CD/DVD players. The first one is alright, but the latter is tragic. This means we are looking at having to put a whole different hardware product just to use this. Maybe they could start just giving us seasons 1-5 of TV shows rather than one at a time. That would be sick. Oh well, at least this is an advancement with more disc space.
Via: Electronista, CrunchGear
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Hmm technological learning at work. Fitting more in less space. This is really a good idea. I would like these discs since I always have alot to back up. This is also good since data chunks these days are getting much bigger, so they are really keeping up with the changes.
Yeah and that’s pretty much the only reason you would actually use them. But you do need a whole different player to actually burn and run them. So not only do you have to buy the discs, you have to buy the player. Still, a good deal.