Blu-ray Goes High Capacity

The Blu-ray Disc Association has released a high-capacity format that more than doubles the amount of storage from the previous generation of discs.
Called BDXL, the specification enables up to 128 GB of storage on write-once Blu-ray discs and 100 GB on rewritable discs.

The latest format is aimed initially at creative professionals and the broadcasting and medical industries, which are in need of more capacity for archiving large amounts of data, video, and graphic images. The association said discs should be available in the market in the next few months. Read more.