Ricoh starts shipping samples of next-generation recordable DVDs to hardware manufacturers
Posted on 06/03/06 22:32 by Johnny                             
Ricoh starts shipping samples of next-generation recordable DVDs to hardware manufacturers

High reliability achieved through Ricoh-developed inorganic recording materials

 

Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2006 '“ Ricoh Co., Ltd has developed recordable disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD, the next-generation DVD formats, and starts shipping samples to hardware manufacturers.

 

The samples to be shipped are BD-R and HD DVD-R, write-once disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD respectively. They have a capacity of 25 GB (BD-R) and 15 GB (HD DVD-R), approximately three to five times that of current disks.

 

 

By employing highly sensitive inorganic recording materials and high-precision stampers newly developed for next-generation recordable DVDs, Ricoh was able to achieve high reliability when writing and reading data. This will provide an advantage in further speed increases and multilayer structures.

 

Next-generation writable DVDs are gradually penetrating into the IT and consumer electronics markets, which are expected to expand rapidly from 2008 and reach 800 million or more pieces being shipped in 2010.

 

Ricoh's optical disk business consists of development and sales of a variety of recordable writable DVDs and hybrid CD-Rs (CDs with both ROM and recordable areas in a single disk), while also selling its own recording materials and licensing and providing its own manufacturing technologies.

 

Ricoh aims to provide the newly developed next-generation recordable DVDs to end-user customers within the year.

Source: justnow-press.de

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By CORRSA, Mon 6 Mar 2006 23:45
only the rich and stupid need apply as they the only one's gonna buy this dead format
By shimman, Tue 7 Mar 2006 00:28
since it says inorganic, does this mean those disks will be safe from fungi, water, or oxygen?
By Xecuter2, Tue 7 Mar 2006 02:52
Xecuter2I will wait for Verbatim to ship their discs. Wink
By squinty, Tue 7 Mar 2006 04:10
I've always been impressed with Ricoh CD-R/DVD+R media. With an exception here and there, they've always made a good quality media. Inorganic is impressive, up until this point I believe all media has been made using organic dyes. I would imagine the logevity of the disks is extended now.
By psychoace, Tue 7 Mar 2006 05:56
i think your just mad because your to poor and just got enough money in the piggy bank to buy a dvd burner. It's ok Santa will get you hd-dvd player in 2008
By mrQQ, Tue 7 Mar 2006 07:41
sorry but you're on the stupid side here. as long as i only use them for storage it's all fine.
By Anthony1uk, Tue 7 Mar 2006 09:53
I will wait for princo to ship theirs. That you fill with data, Check the disk and it appears fine, so you deleate from your hard drive all that data. Then two months later the disk has all of a sudden become a coaster.
By ItsRick, Tue 7 Mar 2006 12:21
Inorganic just means no carbon. I'm no chemist, but I have a feeling that when current discs deteriorate it's not due to the carbon in them, but most likely something more reactive. There's probably some type of rather reactive metal involved in the dye in these - water loves to play with (and mess up) reactive metals. Besides, the whole point of writeable media is the ability to change it. I don't expect any extremely stable non-Gold dye-based media from HD or BD.
By bkf, Tue 7 Mar 2006 14:03
bkfAfter some real world testing the formats might be ok. BUT it's the built in features 'To enhance the user experience" That have it doomed.

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