“We can rebuild it, make it stronger.” Oh, sorry about that. I was off on my Steve Austin trip there for a minute. It’s just that when I read that Blu-ray was going to see 100GB, I started thinking about the old AOL commercial with the little yellow dude running at terrific speeds on the treadmill.

TDK has developed a prototype Blu-ray disc that can store twice as much data as current iterations of the next-generation DVD format–and record it twice as fast.

PC World reports that the 100GB disc, unveiled at a TDK exhibition in Tokyo this week, can record data at 72 megabits per second, double the 36 mbps rate of current Blu-ray discs. To achieve the higher capacity, TDK added two additional recording layers to the disc to take it up to four layers. [Read the rest]