High reliability Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2006 '“ The samples to be shipped are BD-R By employing highly sensitive Next-generation writable DVDs are Ricoh's optical disk business Ricoh aims to provide the newly
achieved through Ricoh-developed inorganic recording materials
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
developed next-generation recordable DVDs to end-user customers within the
year.
Source: justnow-press.de
