How the Xbox 720 could Outdo Blu-ray

So you thought the 50GB capacity of Blu-ray was pretty impressive? Well, in 2007 it most certainly was but darn it if the crazy world of media storage doesn’t race along at a Speedy Gonzales rate. Here we are only two years after the PS3 hit Aussie shores alongside Sony’s spirited push of the Blu-Ray format and already 50GB is looking piss weak. Well it does in the face of an announcement from scientists at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne anyway, who have revealed a technique which enables 12TBs of storage capacity on a DVD.

That’s 240 times the capacity of Blu-ray… you could effectively fit every single PS3 game out there on the one disc. 

We will not get into the specific technical jargon of the new ‘5th dimension’ storage system because we are still working on that nanotechnology degree, but here is what a poindextor told us was happening. By utilizing super-nano powers scientists are polarising the light used to layer data which opens up a whole new spatial dimension for storage and that freaky new dimension can be rotated and written on in a 360 degree plane, thus massively improving capacity.

No less interesting than this brain buckling announcement was a finer point revealing that Samsung has signed an agreement with the technology’s creators looking towards a commercial release of the product by 2014. Ok, so far so good, yeah?

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