Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Sony and Panasonic agreement for developing a next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs

Summary: Sony and Panasonic sign basic agreement to jointly develop standard for professional-use next-generation optical discs

Sony and Panasonic have announced that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of jointly developing a next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs, with the objective of expanding their archive business for long-term digital data storage. Both companies target will be the development of an optical disc with recording capacity of at least 300GB by the end of 2015.

In a statement both companies said they had “a proven track record in developing Blu-ray Disc™ format technologies, and by actively promoting the adoption of a new standard for next-generation high-capacity optical discs, they intend to offer solutions that preserve valuable data for future generations.”


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