Blu-ray Disc Format Announced
Posted February 19, 2002 12:00 AM by Marwin
Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established
the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video
recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording,
rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided
single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser.
The companies that established the basic specifications for the Blu-ray Disc
are: Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.,
Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.,
Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson Multimedia.