Jari Ketola
10 May 2003 10:27
Toshiba will be preseting its developments in the research of a dual-layer, 36GB Advanced Optical Disk (AOD) rewritable medium at Optical Data Storage meeting in Vancouver, Canada this weekend. Dual-layer AOD tightens the competition between AOD and rival blue-laser technology -- Blu-Ray. Dual-sided Blu-Ray discs offer a maximum capacity of 50GB. Last month Sony announced the first Blu-Ray recorder for consumer markets with a 23GB storage capacity.
The AOD technology developed by NEC and Toshiba was chosen by DVD Forum as the next-generation DVD-format. It is physically compatible with current DVD format, which makes the development of AOD hardware easy, and lowers the costs.
Source:
EE Times