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Vertbatim is rewritng the rules on writing Blu-ray discs
STORAGE FIRM Verbatim is offering data chomping users media with 25GB of storage capacity, and is promising the release of 100GB discs by next Spring.
The discs do not just hold a lot, they take it up quickly. According to the firm they have a six times burning rate and a full disc can be written in just fifteen minutes.
This, it explained, will make them well suited to anyone that, ahem, wants to record a film in high definition, or back up a whole load of data on something that can within a couple of years turn into a coaster, although Verbatim has backed the media with a lifetime guarantee and 'hard coat' protection.
A ten pack of discs will set you back just under £60 - according to the firm, or about five times the price of a stack of DVD-Rs. Coincidentally, the discs offer about five times the capacity of a standard DVD-R.
Statistics fans not yet sated by all these figures will enjoy the news that a single disc can gulp down 4,800 5MB photos.
Torsten Leye, marketing manager for optical at Verbatim in Europe, said that the release is the result of sterling development from its research team.
This he explained, keeps the firm at the "Forefront of Blue Laser Technology providing innovative disc surfaces such as, Verbatim's Hard Coat technology - a special scratch protection layer - protects the disc from scratches, fingerprints or dust." This, he said, will help preserve the lifespan of discs and content.
Verbatim is slightly behind the curve on this one, as Sharp announced similar discs earlier this month. However, it has another trick up its sleeve, and Leye added that the firm will launch triple layer 100GB discs early next year. µ
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I am infuriated by this article. In my own, solitary, tech obsessed life I strive for perfection.
Whether this be in the lankness of my beard, the smoothness of my vendor tee shirt, or the collection of snacks and chips I offer my rare guests.
To make such a mistake, and on an article that could actually save lives, is beyond reproach.
I see the mistake has now been corrected, perhaps this is just to make us look stupid! well good luck with that Inq!
I for one will never come back here. Until the next time i come back here and swear I will never come back here.
I get quite limited practical life out of DVD-RW... it ain't like rechargeable batteries. Because it doesn't matter if a rechargeable battery gets scratched or scuffed.
Maybe I shouldn't do my computing in the garage...
...or believe everything I read.
Bring back Guy Kewney...
Fudo, Mageek, Charlie, Sylvie, Tony etc - real journo's with knowledge.
Remember reading some near juveniles article about a month ago about a 27" monitor which proved a total lack of A-Si panel market intelligence. He also tried to take a stance on the Foxconn Hon Hai suicides - a very intolerable read.
What used to be cutting edge has turned into what we web start ups of the day could get away with in year 2000/2001 - its 2010 and a UKGamer style ethic is not the legacy that Mageek ever imagined of.
Its the modern day equivalent of letting an uber dork have access to an old school Newspro cgi logon. That's what L'inq is now.
"You only THINK you have a backup."
Of course that's why you make more than one.
These? Hmm. I'm still using DVD, and have resized the Windows-XP-and-application partition on most of my PCs to 15 GB, which images reasonably well onto one DVD, with compression. I'm inclining to use 312 MB size split on backup files, which suits DVD and also removable Flash memory, and is tolerable on CD-ROM.
So now I get to rethink it all. Well, whenever I do upgrade my own machines.