Pioneer beats their own record, brings you 500 GB Blu-ray disk
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Last month, we reported announcement of Pioneer’s 400 GB Blu-ray disk. However, a month later, Pioneer seems to have collected more music to store and therefore has announced a new 500 GB Blu-ray disk in prototype. “Old” 400 GB disk had 16 layers of 25 GB each and in a month Pioneer managed to add four more layers resulting in 20 layers on a conventional 12-centimeter optical disk.
Brendan Sheridan, Multimedia Division Product Manager at Pioneer, said that 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray discs might be enough for current demands, but that Pioneer envisages the need for “far greater capacities as HD streaming in particular becomes commonplace and users build larger files of digital content”.
Pioneer was able to minimize data transmission issues by reducing the amount of crosstalk and boosting high-precision signal transmissions from each respective layer.
