FirstAdopter.com: Toshiba Develops Whopping 45 Gigabyte HD DVD

May 11, 2005

Toshiba Develops Whopping 45 Gigabyte HD DVD

I don't know if this will impact the unifying standard talks for HD DVD, but Toshiba announced yesterday it has developed a 3 layer 45 gigabyte HD DVD disk. This technology if implemented nixes Sony's Blu-ray capacity advantage. More storage is always good.

The hybrid discs are manufactured using existing technologies and production lines, according to Shiroharu Kawasaki, president and chief executive of Memory-Tech. Each disc uses a 0.6-mm thick dual-layer disc plus a 0.6-mm thick single-layer disc to create the hybrid, with each layer storing 15 gigabytes.