An optical disk of 1TB compatible with Blu-ray, or almost...
The company Call/Recall have announced that they developed a disk able to store 1 TB of data and compatible with the blue laser used in the Blu-ray apparatuses.
To arrive at this result, they use a substrate radically different from that of the current disks. It is filled with a dye reacting to the laser by emitting light if it is excited by a second laser. This emission of light or its absence allow the reading of to the 1 and 0.
The announced data flow for reading is very promising; it should reach the 100 MB/s, much more than the solution, Inphase, it will compete with.
In the long term, Call/Recall hopes to be able to store 5 TB on a wafer the size of a CD. You will have understood that it will not be able to read this media on standard Blu-ray readers. On the other hand, the fact that it uses common components should make this technology much more accessible than the other 3D storage systems used in specific systems.
Marketing should start, in the best case, at the beginning of the next decade.