A new format, the BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs), have been announced by the Blu-ray Association. The Blu-ray XL or BDXL will have an increased disc capacity of 128GB. (This is more than 27 DVDs can have.) Expected sometime in the summer of 2010. The BDXL format will mostly be used by the commercial or profession sectors.
While the increased in disc capacity is good news, the new format can not be used on current Blu-ray Players. These new discs have four readable layers. The lasers found on current Blu-ray Players are just not powerful enough to handle the new format. New Blu-ray Players will be need to be purchased in order to use them.
While your currently Blu-ray Player will not become obsolete anytime soon. It will be a few years before this new BDXL format makes it way to home users. There are some good possible functions of this new format. An increase in disc capacity should mean the Blu-ray XL format can have a higher quality High Definition and store more movies and TV show onto a single disc.
A second format, the IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid discs), has also been announced. This is a disc that will have one 26GB layer that is writable and a second 22Gb that is re-writable. Therefore, when you purchase a IH-BD Blu-ray disc it could have pre-loaded content on one layer and the other, re-writable layer, be free of any content. Both the BDXL and IH-BD will require new Blu-ray Players in order to play them.
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