Parsons sees a time a little more than a year from now when enterprises will begin adopting optical disk for long-term off site data storage and for use in optical jukeboxes, where it can be accessed quickly and where it is more dependable than hard disk drives for certain applications.

"Say you have a nearline [disk drive] system that fails. What do you do? The huge pitch for the DVD side is that you can grab an optical disk out of the jukebox, take it to a computer with a Blu-ray drive and get access to your data," he said, adding that current DVD jukeboxes will need little modification to accept the Blu-ray format disks.

"Clearly it won't be long before people start coming out with products, but it's a question of when the [enterprise] IT side starts seeing this technology as smart buy," Parsons said.

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