How To Fit 300 DVD's On One Disc

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Saw this on the BBC website and would have posted it in the News section, but I don't have the power to do so.

How to fit 300 DVDs on one disc

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A new optical recording method could pave the way for data discs with 300 times the storage capacity of standard DVDs, Nature journal reports.

The researchers say this could see a whopping 1.6 terabytes of information fit on a DVD-sized disc.

They describe their method as "five-dimensional" optical recording and say it could be commercialised.

The technique employs nanometre-scale particles of gold as a recording medium.

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bluray did quite well with their disc's physical protection
if somebody has come up with fitting 1.5tb on a disc, i'm sure they will come up with a decent form of protection :P