That's according to the Nikkei Business Daily, which reported that the technique will use ultraviolet lasers, which emit shorter wavelength rays than blue lasers. The paper reported that Pioneer uses the beam to write data holes in a master disk, each separated by 70 nanometres.
That gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk. While there are technical problems creating data cavities so small, Pioneer has, apparently, solved problems associated with scattering of the laser by developing a carbon mask using photosensitive resin."
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That's incredible. Who has 500 GB worth of data on their HD anyways though? My disk only holds 25 GB's at it's maximum. This would be a really great technology for storing uncompressed DV data however.
I expect that they won't release this new format for a while. Pioneer will probably wait until there's more of a demand for it. Right now only a few big corporations like Microsoft and Google would benifit from it. Google is always looking for ways to increase their storage capacity and Microsoft is as well.
There was a time when even 1 MB of storage seemed like too much. It's nearly impossible to imagine now though. Eventually 500 GB will become obsolete too. Pioneer could stand to make an enormous profit from this technology. Other companies will follow suit however but as it stands now Pioneer has a huge lead.
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