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Japanese competitors Sony and Panasonic are joining forces to develop a 300GB optical storage disc that will replace Blu-Rays by 2015.
The agreement to work together was born out of the realization that optical discs will need to accommodate much larger volumes of storage “in years to come given the expected future growth in the archive market,” the companies said in a press release.
The 300GB discs are far larger than DVDs, which hold 4.7 GB each, and Blu-rays which can hold 25 to 50 GB. Due to the large storage capacity, optical storage discs are best suited to corporate and other professional uses such as data centers, libraries, archives and even broadcasting.
“In recent years, there has been an increasing need for archive capabilities, not only from video production industries, such as motion pictures and broadcasting, but also from cloud data centers that handle increasingly large volumes of data following the evolution in network services,” the companies say.
“Both Sony and Panasonic have a proven track record in developing Blu-ray Disc format technologies, and by actively promoting the adoption of a new standard for next-generation high-capacity optical discs, they intend to offer solutions that preserve valuable data for future generations.”
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