They just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Storage capacities that is. Last week we heard about the first terabyte drive, today Verbatim and (its parent company) Mitsubishi Kagaku Media or MKM announced it will begin shipping a single-sided dual layer HD DVD-R that can store up to 30GB of data. Yes that's not typo its thirty gigabytes of data on a single disc.

Verbatim MKM promises that the new high-capacity discs will be available to customers in North America sometime in the first quarter of 2007. These discs were available in Japan since July of last year.

You'll need one of those new HD-DVD writers as well.