Blu-Ray companies plan to release 8cm discs as well

align=right border=0>On Thursday, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper
reported that Sony, Matsushita and Sharp plan to release camcorders based
on smaller 8cm discs as early as next year. The firms will then each
release camcorders that use these smaller discs, which will have a
capacity of about 15 gigabytes, 40 percent less than standard Blu-ray
discs, the report said.

The Blu-ray Disc Association is expected to set technical
specifications for Blu-ray discs as early as next
year.