Sharp stepped up at the 70th Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics to promote its new 500mW Blu-ray laser that is reportedly production ready and waiting to churn out triple and quad layer (100GB) discs at 8x speed. The only thing holding it back from release now is the lack of an official spec from the BDA. Geeking out over details of the aluminum oxynitride film that enabled this breakthrough (pictured above) continues beyond the read link.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3405

Also the Pioneer 400GB blu-ray are scheduled to be ready by the end of this financial year.

o_o; I want my PS3 games on that. :D 500 hours of gameplay. Lol

Good to see that they are continuing to take the technology further anyway! I wonder when games will make use of this 100GB disk... if ever?

"at 8x speed"

*stares at PS3 and it's wimpy 2x Drive for dual-layers*

You disappoint me...

I think this is awesome. And i'm sure first party developers would us a 100gb one in no time. Just look at what happened with the 50gb one. Many said they would never use it, and look at what happened, they did. Now they are saying it's too small. If you look at the interview about Uncharted 2 she seemed like she wanted more space. I bet that when a 400 one comes out and if the PS3 could read it they would totally use the full 400gb. I really hope so, i want some massive games, open world and that you could get lost in. Basically it would be like you would only have to buy one game a year. But i bet they would go up in price.

and the best thing all these blu ray disc's will run on existing BD players.

Even the 1TB one's Pioneer is planning to launch in 2011-2012

Uncharted 3 maxing out 100 GB Blu-ray confirmed!!

@ Solid_Snake

 Sweet!!

damn really nice find. Cant wait to see if developers take advantage of all this space.

MGS 5 confirmed, will be 120GB and compressed for a Bluray disc !