200Gb 8 layer blu ray from tdk

[Marshmallowman]

They say they are ready for 4 layer (100gb)

and 8 layer is to come

http://www.tdk.com/consumer/marketing/brd5.html?www.dailytech.com

I did not find any indication of when its going to be released though...

[Jammrock]

2-layer in consumer writeable isn't due out until next year, so I would suspect quad to come out in 2008-9 and 8-layer in 2010-2011. This is assuming that 1) Blu-ray wins the format wars, 2) digital distribution and cheap HDDs with RAID 5 arrays don't kill them both, 3) a third party vendor doesn't come out with something significantly better and cheaper by then. Of course they could skip 4x all together and go straight to 8-layers if production costs aren't significantly higher.