Blu-ray capacity increase via firmware

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Submitted by LordofEntropy on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @01:13PM

LordofEntropy writes "Blu-ray.com reports that Sony and Panasonic have announced a new optical disc evaluation technology that increases capacity from 25GB to 33.4GB. The tech uses existing Blu-ray diodes and is accomplished via firmware upgrade. The article says that it is not know if and when the upgrade will be adopted into the Blu-ray spec. However, given that Sony and Panasonic are behind it "it will likely happen later this year.""
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And in other exciting news, IBM... (Score:2)

by dpbsmith (263124) writes:

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