Blu-ray innovator Sony has teamed up with scientists at Tohuku Univsersity in Japan to develop a new blue-violet laser that could enable Blu-ray discs to reach one terabyte (1TB) capacity. In a press release clearly aimed at the technically-minded, Sony revealed it has successfully developed an 'all-semiconductor laser picosecond pulse source' with a wavelength of 405 nanometers. 'It is capable of generating optical pulses in the ultrafast duration of 3 picoseconds, with ultra-high output peaks power of 100W, which is more than a hundred times the world's highest output value for conventional blue-violet pulse semiconductor lasers,' said the CE giant. The technology would allow Sony to increase the density of data on a single layer of a BD by as much as 20 times, according to the number crunchers at Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri. This will be of immediate interest to home cinema hedz, as hitherto unimaginable possibilities – an entire season of Lost on one disc, for instance, or the Star Wars Trilogy on a single platter – become tantalisingly real. Unfortunately, there's no word on when 1TB Blu-rays, either for domestic or commercial use, might appear, The breakthrough follows the recent news that the Blu-ray Disc Association has approved the BDXL format, which delivers recordable discs with up to 128GB capacity.
Then its still gonna fail at some point. Think of it as a human,we die at a certain age. Same applies to machines. Looking after yourself will let you live longer but you age won't.
Don't you learn anything in school? Because we know we can simply replace them with new stuff...Basic human psychology there. Something breaks you buy something new. The only thing you can't replace is a human life. That be told you fail at learning pretty simple life rules.