Japanese researchers devise method for cramming 42GB on a DVD todo electricidad

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Never mind those fancy BD-R critters, how"s about a 42GB DVD? Researchers with a good deal more intelligence than us over at Tohoku University have reportedly figured out a way to "multiply the amount of data that can be stored on a DVD or CD by 9." Based on our best guess at translating a foreign language (we kid... sort of), the achievement was realized by shaping the pits on a DVD"s surface like Vs, essentially making the disc more capacious in the process. Unfortunately, said project will probably never see any mainstream attention, as existing DVD / CD players won"t recognize the malformed media, and worse still, the process can"t be applied to Blu-ray Discs.

[Via CrunchGear]

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