Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Japanese have developed a Multi-optical drive.

Japanese company Infinity Storage Media introduced an optical disc combining DVD format and Blu-ray, reports CrunchGear. Working with the new carrier can be any players formats Blu-ray and DVD.
Multi-disc total capacity of 33.5 gigabytes. It consists of a single-layer Blu-ray volume of 25 gigabytes and two DVD layers of a total capacity of 8.5 gigabytes.
Lower layer of new media is the Blu-ray. The installation disc to normal DVD-player laser passes through the layer Blu-ray and reads data from a DVD-layers.
The first film will be released at the Multi-ROM in early 2009. They will become a Japanese TV series Code Blue. It will be recorded in the four Multi-disc, which cost $ 400. The duration of the series - 534 minutes.
In the future, Infinity Storage Media intends to issue a second model of Multi-drive. It will include two-layer Blu-ray and a single layer DVD.

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