Pioneer Develops Massive 400GB Optical Disc

Pioneer says it has developed a 16-layer optical disc capable of storing 400GB of data. The company says it is the world's first 16-layer read-only optical disc. There's no word though when it will be available.

Pioneer says the disc has a per-layer capacity of 25GB making existing Blu-ray optical discs look downright small by storage-capacity standards. The 25GB-per-layer claim is equal to that of one Blu-ray Disc.

It is unclear at this point, as TG Daily points out, what disc format, such as Blu-ray, this new technology is based upon. Pioneer does mention though some of the new disc's optical lens specifications are the same as those for existing Blue-ray discs, suggesting its 16-layer discs could be cross compatibility with Blue-ray discs.

The company plans to spill more of the beans on this new optical disc technology at the July 13 International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008.

For consumers this could mean some day you'll be able to archive every uncompressed video of your child - from birth to high school graduation - on one disc. You wouldn't want to use that disc as a coaster for a beer.

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