As independent head and media suppliers in an increasingly consolidated market, TDK and SDK carried on research and development that allowed them to introduce advancements such as perpendicular recording in Toshiba products in 2004, many months before the other hard disk drive companies could bring their perpendicular recording products to market.
How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recordingrecording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.