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Pioneer’s Super Multi-Layered Disc By admin 02 December 2008 at 3:30 pm and have

Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB disk by 2013, according to Pioneer.

The technology of the super multi-layer read-only disc is based on Blu-ray Disc (BD) with a breakthrough in material of reflective layers, according to Pioneer High Fidelity Taiwan. The specifications of the pick-up head (PUH) of the disc are the same as those for the PUH of blank BD discs, and therefore the Pioneer discs can be read on BD players.

So because they both use the same PUH they are compatible with BD players but the track pitch is set 10 to 15 nanometers off. So hopefully when they release this new Super-disc in the next couple years we want have to buy a new Blu-ray Player. Here is a chart comparing the two formats.

[via DigiTimes]

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