recordable 100gb dvd

[Squid]

thanks to Wired:
100 gig DVD: Matsushita Electric Industrial unveiled on Monday a recordable DVD that stores 50 gigabytes of data per side -- more than 10 times the storage capacity of current DVDs.

The company said the new technology, which uses blue-laser light and a semi-transparent material that permits recording of data on two separate layers, can hold more than four hours of digital high-definition motion pictures on one side of a disc.

Matsushita (MC), which already markets a DVD-RAM recorder using conventional red-laser technology, gave no target date for bringing its blue-laser, dual-layer DVD products to market.

"This is essentially a recording device for digital high-definition TV, so we'll consider what to do while watching the timing of terrestrial digital broadcasting," Shin-ichi Tanaka, director of Matsushita's optical disc systems development center, told a news conference.

my favorite part is the 1337 blue laser