There’s a highly dugg story floating around the Internet about a 1000GB, or 1TB, Hitachi Blu-ray burner that was just announced in Australia. While there is no reason to question the Smarthouse News article’s validity, it was a little light on the clarity.
A 1000GB Blu-ray disc is a technical impossibility because the strict standards of format production will always limit the laser and 25GB/layer storage. A double-sided 8-layer could presumable get you somewhere around 400GB, but it’s still short.
So what is this $2000 mystery 1TB Blu-ray burner? It’s the new 1TB Hitachi hard drive with a burner attached—all in happy home theater form. That’s our bet, at least. And this new announcement still could be pretty cool.
