Blu-ray successor format to officially store 1TB on single disc

In case you were wondering about the future of optical storage after Blu-ray, including its handover to alternative flash-based formats, Sony has a statement particularly geared towards those wide-eyed cynics and pessimists from every corner of the Internet – by no means does the optical storage format plan to die anytime soon.

Even as Blu-ray continues to experience growing pains in a market overwhelmed with DVDs, a new report from the Examiner states that Sony is working in conjunction with Japanese researchers from Tohoku University to develop a next-generation “blu-violet ultrafast pulsed semiconductor laser” that will be able to store 1TB of data on a single optical disc.