176w ago - Sony and Panasonic have developed a new technology that will allow the layer capacity of Blu-ray disc to be increased from 25GB to 33.4GB per layer.
Apparently, exisiting devices would just need a simple upgrade to read all 33.4GB or 66.8GB per disc.
To quote: "Sony and Panasonic have announced that they have developed a new optical disc evaluation technology that will allow the layer capacity of Blu-ray media to increase from 25GB to 33.4GB using existing Blu-ray laser diodes.
This would presumably allow existing Blu-ray hardware - including Blu-ray Disc players and burners - to play the proposed discs with a simple firmware upgrade.
Currently, disc evaluation is accomplished by analyzing disc jitter, but at higher capacity, that technique becomes unreliable. Sony and Panasonic resolved this by developing i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation) evaluation index, which can perform the same function as jitter but at higher capacities."
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I dont know if games are actually coming close to the capacity of current disks anyway.
My reason is being that you pay for 50GB and not 27GB or 32GB etc, it is not cost effective, and the more profitable option would be a slimming down package. Now, say a game originally had 29.53GB of data, it can all be included on this new media disc instead of losing the 4.53GB in order to make the cut off. Can someone with more knowledge either verify this or call me on it?
P.S: Also, think about this move as a way to provide more space for 3D gaming as promised by Sony for 2010. 3D takes up a lot more space than the same data without the 3D capabilities. Just something to ponder
I feel it's not so much that good when you really think about the name "Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation". doesn't that mean that the disc readers well "keep estimating" all the time? wouldn't that decrease the performance? even speed? and oh my god, the most important thing the lifespan of the BD reader?
I'm just speculating...