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TDK ships 25GB recordable and re-writable Blu-ray media
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10. April 2006 @ 10:51 |
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TDK ships 25GB recordable and re-writable Blu-ray media
Posted by Dan Bell on 10 April 2006 - 19:48 - Source: TDK
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April 10, 2006
TDK BEGINS SHIPPING ITS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BLU-RAY DISC 25GB RECORDABLE AND REWRITABLE MEDIA
? Exclusive Material Formulations and Manufacturing Processes Deliver
Bit-Perfect Recording and Playback ?
GARDEN CITY, NY, April 10, 2006 ? TDK, a world leader in digital recording solutions, today announced that it has begun shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc media to retailers nationwide. A pioneer of blue laser recording technology and founding member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, TDK is the first to market with bare Blu-ray Disc media. Retail pricing is set at $19.99 for a 25GB BD-R (recordable), $24.99 for a 25GB BD-RE (rewritable). In addition, TDK will ship 50GB Blu-ray Disc media later this year with retail pricing set at $47.99 for a 50GB BD-R (recordable) and $59.99 for a 50GB BD-RE (rewritable).
The revolutionary single-sided discs are bare, cartridge-free media. The 25GB products are single layer whereas the 50GB products have a dual layer recording material structure. TDK first shipped mass production samples in December 2005, and with the subsequent issuance of the relevant license, the company immediately commenced full force manufacturing.
"TDK is pleased to be the first to market with bare Blu-ray Disc media, which can be counted among the most significant product introductions in the company?s distinguished 70 year history," noted Bruce Youmans, TDK Vice President of Marketing. "TDK has been involved in the development of blue laser recording technology since 1998, and TDK innovations such as hard coating and our inorganic dye formulation have played an essential role in making this revolutionary new format a reality. From backing up today?s large capacity hard drives and servers to authoring and recording high definition video and sharing high resolution digital image collections, TDK Blu-ray Discs set new standards in recording and playback by offering unprecedented capacities, fast transfer rates and revolutionary durability."
Making Blu-ray Discs a Reality
TDK Blu-ray Discs are manufactured to the highest quality standards at the company?s Chikumagawa Techno Factory in Japan. Outfitted with state of the art technology, the Chikumagawa factory is poised to lead the charge on optical media development well into the future. TDK heavily committed its worldwide engineering resources to Blu-ray, and has created new formulations and manufacturing techniques that constitute revolutionary milestones in recording technology.
The high-sensitivity inorganic recording material utilized by TDK for the write-once type BD-R is completely different than the recording materials used for CD or DVD. TDK Blu-ray Discs? inorganic material is impervious to light, making the discs exceptionally well suited for archiving data. Composed of copper and silicon, TDK?s exclusive CuSi recording material delivers remarkable, long-lasting performance. The recording material enables fast recording and playback speeds and also makes it possible to realize massive capacities through multi-layering. For TDK?s rewritable BD-RE Blu-ray Disc media, a specially designed high-sensitivity phase change recording material is utilized. The material is so stable that a TDK Blu-ray Disc shows virtually no performance degradation even after it has been overwritten 10,000 times. The 25GB and 50GB BD-R and BD-RE discs offer 2x (72Mbps) rated recording speed. Based on simulated acceleration tests, TDK?s archival life expectancy rating for Blu-ray Disc media is more than 50 years.
Blu-ray Discs were originally released in Japan in April of 2003 with a protective cartridge. The cartridge was necessary in order to protect the recording material, which is manufactured close to the Blu-ray Disc?s surface in order to realize the disc?s high density recording capabilities. TDK pioneered hard coating technology, eliminating the need for cumbersome cartridges. Every TDK Blu-ray Disc includes DURABIS, the world?s most advanced and most protective hard coating formulation. DURABIS increases the scratch resistance of Blu-ray Disc media by a factor of 100, as demonstrated in rigorous testing. DURABIS also resists fingerprints to help eliminate errors caused by disc surface smudges. Because the DURABIS coating technology rapidly discharges static electricity, the discs also resist the accumulation of dust, a potential source of recording and playback errors. TDK Blu-ray Discs provide absolute reliability for perfect recording and playback every time.
A 0.1 millimeter thick cover layer comprises the Blu-ray Disc?s outermost internal surface, and the recording material resides beneath it. During recording, the laser passes through the cover layer in its path to the recording layer. Absolute uniformity in the thickness of the cover layer is critical to ensuring precise laser tracking, which is required for reliable performance. To achieve total uniformity in the cover layer?s thickness, TDK developed an exclusive Spin Coating manufacturing process. With TDK Spin Coating, the cover layer is spun onto the disc at a high rate of speed, ensuring even dispersal of the material. High precision stacking technology further ensures reliability by consistently overlaying disc layers with the utmost precision.
TDK?s Blu-ray Disc roadmap extends the format?s capabilities even further, proving that Blu-ray is truly future-ready. TDK technologies have already enabled creating 100GB, quad-layer Blu-ray Disc prototypes and blazing 216Mbps (6x) speed. The company is in the process of developing the world?s first 200GB Blu-ray Disc prototype.
TDK Blu-ray Disc Media: Unparalleled Storage Capacity for Professional Applications
In business and commercial environments where a high volume of discs are recorded, reliable media is of the utmost importance. That is why TDK is offering its line of recordable 25GB Blu-ray Disc media in 50-piece spindle packaging that delivers unparalleled reliability to business and commercial customers who require bulk configurations. TDK?s Blu-ray Disc media not only meets the needs of replicators and high volume business users, it also offers unprecedented durability for authoring and library applications.
TDK 25GB Blu-ray Disc media will be available in 50-piece spindles in the second quarter 2006.
Specifications
Item Unit BD-R25 BD-R50 BD-RE25 BD-RE50
Type ? Write-once Rewritable
Recording capacity GB 25
(single-layer) 50
(dual-layer) 25
(single-layer) 50
(dual-layer)
Recording wavelength nm 405 (blue-violet laser)
Disc diameter mm 120
Disc thickness mm 1.2
Cover layer thickness mm 0.1
Track pitch µm 0.32 (group recording)
Data transfer rate Mbps 36(1X) /7 2(2X)
Reflectance % 12~24 4~8 12~24 4~8
Linear velocity m/s 4.9(1X) / 9.8(2X)
* Dimensional specifications are nominal.
About TDK
TDK Corporation (NYSE: TDK) is a leading global electronics company based in Japan. It was established in 1935 to commercialize ?ferrite,? a key material in electronics and magnetics. The company today is a leader in the development of next-generation technologies such as Blu-ray Disc recording media, an optical disc ideally suited for high-definition video recording. TDK offers a full line of recordable DVD and CD media, digital camcorder tapes, professional data storage solutions including LTO Ultrium media, and much more.
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10. April 2006 @ 11:01 |
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well that is great, except for the price. I will wait about a year for the price to drop a little bit. However, these will be my fancy as these will hold more data than the HD-DVD. I am wondering however if you are going to need a firmware update in order for burners to recognize these, or new burners all together. I believe that my CloneDVD AnyDVD shouldn't matter, and if it does I know that I can count on slysoft for the updates. In regards to changing the option right now from DVD-5 to DVD-9, i don't know if they will add an option for blueray to maximize use and speed.
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10. April 2006 @ 14:02 |
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wow thats pretty cool... im gonna try HD-DVD first tho because it will be cheaper and cost less in the end if one of the 2 fails.
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10. April 2006 @ 16:32 |
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50 GBS! Holy Moly. Could you imagine the time to get that 50 gb disc full,and then it fails at 99%. I would be pretty pissed off. LOL
halfhere:
If you are disappointed with the $20 a disc,then look at the price of a Blu-ray burner- $1000 last I heard is what they were going for.
$20 discs would be chicken feed!
It'll be 3+ yrs before I could afford one of them.
Of course,you'll probably need a Blu-ray player.
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10. April 2006 @ 16:57 |
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50 GBS! Holy Moly. Could you imagine the time to get that 50 gb disc full,and then it fails at 99%. I would be pretty pissed off. LOL
^^^Yea no Sh*t!!!!
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10. April 2006 @ 18:42 |
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Not only the time spent, but that would be a $20 coaster!! These people are crazy...$1,000 for a Blu-ray burner, $800 for a Blu-ray player, and $20 for a blank blu-ray disc!! I guess it will be a while before I have anything Blu-ray related in my house. Until November at least...
And if TDK has crappy people making their blu-ray discs like their blank dvd's, then there will be a whole lot of $20 coasters making people cry.
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10. April 2006 @ 20:05 |
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LOL
this is a good read, actually, despite my bias towards TDK's own manufactured dvd media, i will have to give them ALL the credit for being at the forefront and development of this new Blu-ray media...
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These people are crazy...$1,000 for a Blu-ray burner, $800 for a Blu-ray player, and $20 for a blank Blu-ray disc!! I guess it will be a while before I have anything Blu-ray related in my house.
i'd have to SELL MY HOUSE to be able to afford a $1k burner, 800 dollar players and if my need to acquire media excessively transpires, another $1k just for blank media alone! LOL
i will be keeping my eye on this new technology as i feel TDK will do a good job on these, suffice it to say i don't feel the same way about TDK's dvd media, but these are a whole new product all together.
thanks for the article ireland, and kudos to TDK for bringing this to the consumer market for those who have deep pockets to enjoy~ (i am unfortunately NOT one of those consumers) :)
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10. April 2006 @ 20:36 |
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edit,and stage right..
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