Blu-ray Association announces new specs, 128GB BD discs on the anvil

Blu-ray association has announced new media specifications that will up the storage capacity of the Blu-ray discs. They have announced the BDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs) and IH-BD (Intra-Hybrid discs) specifications where BDXL is the big brother here. BDXL discs will be able to store data up to 128GB. The write-once discs will come in 100GB or 128GB options whereas the rewritable BDXL discs will store up to 100GB.

On the other hand, the IH-BD discs will incorporate a single BD layer that will allow consumers to store only 25GB of data.

The first discs with these specs support are expected in coming months.

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