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Sanyo’s planning to make Blu-Ray twice as big!Sony might’ve told us the Blu-Ray format can’t be improved, but that hasn’t stopped Sanyo, which reckons its new lasers could squeeze twice the data onto each disc.

That means longer films (or even more extras), absolutely massive videogames and a stall in the race towards yet another format war.

Sanyo’s new laser blasts out a beam of light at 450 milliwatts, which its makers claim will cram an extra two layers onto a Blu-Ray disc, boosting the capacity to 100GB per disc, up from the current 50GB.

That’s enough for 18 hours of full HD video, and what’s more, Sanyo’s new laser would speed up the creation of Blu-Ray discs too, filling the whole 100GB in around 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, it’s still a work in progress, so the likelihood is we’ll have to wait a few years until the technology appears. By which time, Sony thinks we’ll have moved on to other things.

TBC | £TBC | Sanyo (via CrunchGear)

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