JVC Co of America in Elmwood Park, New Jersey says it has developed a new variable bit rate digital video disk technology that enables over 135 minutes of high quality video using Motion Picture Experts Group 2-level on a 4.7 optical disk, which is enough to get all but the longest movies onto one disk. The new technology is to be officially introduced at a Japanese imaging technology convention next month. Although heavily compressed, the video still needs over 6Gb of storage capacity on the disk, and does not say how it has achieved this: the use of red lasers enables the 1Gb capacity on current disks to be raised to between 3Gb and 4Gb.
