Its bandwidth of 428 kilohertz means a single segment can carry a bare-bones video picture, compact disc-quality audio, and text for news flashes, weather details and emergency announcements.
Scheduled to ship in limited quantities by June and in volume by August, the 32GH is capable of storing up to eight DVD (digital versatile disc)-quality movies, 32, 000 high-resolution digital photographs or the equivalent of 49 music CDs (compact discs), IBM said.
This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.