Sanyo Makes Blu-Ray Double The Fun And Twice As Powerful – New 100GB, 12X Speed Laser In The Pipelines

As if Blu-ray wasn’t fabulous enough, Sanyo has just revealed that they may have a solution for significantly speedier recording times as well as doubling up on available storage!

Sanyo revealed information regarding a new 450 milliwatt beam that would read and write data up to four data layers and up to speeds of 12X. This is significantly higher than their current top of the range product which runs at approximately half of that.

Current Blu-ray lasers can burn 2 data layers of 25GB each and now with the added 2 layers (thanks to Sanyo’s newest Blue-ray laser concept), this means that each new disk will have the capacity doubled thereby allowing each disk the potential of having 100GB worth of storage capacity which (in theory) can be burnt onto the disk within 10 minutes, thanks to this amazing 12X speed acceleration!

Imagine 8 hours of 1080 resolution video being copied over to a disk in less than 15 minutes? It’s almost unimaginable if you consider the times we spend in front of our burning ROMs before a tight deadline is due.

Sadly, despite this being the best news since well, the advent of Blu-ray itself, these lasers won’t be available for quite some time as they will need to be approved by various bureaus of standards and the Blu-ray Disc Association. They would obviously need to ensure that all companies start working on standardizing the lasers for ease of use in the world of users (to make our lives that much simpler of course). Right now we can only hope this comes sooner rather than later.

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