US company demonstrates 201 Gigabyte ROM optical media

August 30, 2004

The company
Marshall Media has issues a press release that announces MMI Burn technology
which allows to store up to 201 GB of data. Earlier another company announced the first
movie recording on holographic media which should extend the current storage
capacities of optical storage media.

The MMI technology ensures higher
density on discs which means more storage space on the same room. The technology
uses blue violet laser diodes. Besides that the discs can be produced
instantly.

The present industry standard for the duplication
process of a CD is 1 to 2 minutes, and for DVD, 12 to 14 minutes. One
major benefit of the MMI-Burn technology is that it uses a "non-contact"
duplication process that places the content on each disc in 1/10 of a
second, at the same time providing "master disc" quality for every disk.

"This new technology puts MMI 5-10 years ahead of all existing media
replication and duplication technologies," said John Trepl II, Chief
Science Officer/Engineer for MMI. "We can now meet, and dramatically
improve, industry production, with the added bonus of vastly improved
quality reproduction by decreasing jitter to immeasurable levels although,
we are inclined to defer to the critical listener," stated Trepl.

Data storage is limited by the pit feature size. Reducing feature
size allows more data pits to be placed on the same size disc. The smaller
pits have a tighter spiral track pitch, so more data can be stored. MMI's
expanded density adds a new generation of density flexibility to CD/DVD
manufacturing.

The company plans to incorporate the MMI-Burn technology
into its automated On-Demand manufacturing and packaging system in 2005. More
information can be found here.

Source: Businesswire.com