More than doubles Blu-ray capacity

Equips the discs with multiple recording layers.

Blu-ray Disc Association announced this weekend that the specification BDXL and IH-BD (Intra-hybrid) can be expected during a few months.

BDXL targeted commercial segments such as broadcasting, medicine and other businesses that create large amounts of data. These will benefit from that BDXL be open to writable discs with a capacity of 100 or 128 gigabytes, and rewritable discs with a capacity of 100 gigabytes. This is achieved by applying three or four recordable layer on the discs.

It should also be a consumer version of BDXL.

Intra-Hybrid Blu-ray Disc (IH-BD) takes on its side using a single BD-ROM layers and a single BD-RE-layer so that the user can see, but not overwrite the data on one part of disc, while the other portion of the disc can be used to store personal data. Both teams will have a capacity of 25 gigabytes.
BDXL and IH-BD will require entirely new equipment for both recording and playback. These future devices will however work with current BD format, which can accommodate up to 50 gigabytes of data.