[NEWS] - New Blu-Ray video disk is made of paper

Handruin

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A new type of Blu-Ray digital video disk made largely from paper has been developed by Sony and Toppan Printing in Japan. The two companies say such paper-based disks will be cheaper to make and less environmentally harmful.
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The resulting prototype consists of 51 per cent paper but is still capable of storing up to 25 gigabytes of data. Regular DVDs have less than half this capacity.

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The supreme master of origami achieved the ultimate by encoding 25GB of data on paper....

Seriously it is mostly paper on the label side to allow for better printing on that side. Seems interesting, though I'm not sure how long they will last.
 

Pradeep

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I find the white printable discs work fine, of course I'm all for paper products if it lowers media costs - unlikely.
 
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