Maxell recently announced that they will be releasing their new 50GB BD-R DL media
to the Japanese market on June 20th. Here's part of their press release, translated from Japanese:
The hitachi [makuseru] corporation (President execution part: Yosihito Tsunoda),
digital hi-vision broadcast program 260 minutes * the for video recording Blu-ray Disc which can be videotaped (the blue ray disk),
postscript type BD-R DL (single sided 2 layer 50GB) it sells from June 20th. Together, for video recording postscript type BD-R for the
data (single sided 1 layer 25GB)/transfer type BD-RE (single sided 1 layer 25GB) each 5 packs of the disk are sold, the line-up of
Blu-ray Disc is expanded.
According to AV Watch, Maxell's BD-R DL media is expected to cost about 4,500 Yen ($37US). More information can be found here.
