Organic Dye to reduce product costs of Blu-Ray!!

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Source: http://pioneer.jp/press/release186.html

Pioneer Corporation (Head Office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President: Tamihiko Sudo) and Mitsubishi Kagaku media Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Shigenori Otsuka) have together succeeded in commercialization of recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R) with organic dye in the recording layer, and also in developing technology for multiple layered, high speed recording for BD-R with metal nitride in the recording layer.

BD-R with Organic Dye Recording Film
Both companies had been collaborating to develop BD-R with dye since 2004. With this development, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media was responsible for improving organic dye recording materials and producing sample discs, while Pioneer was responsible for evaluating the samples, as well as disc structure design based on verification and simulations for compatibility with disc drives. The synergy of these two areas of expertise has led to a successful development of the 2X organic dye BD-R.

Since the announcement of the joint development in 2005, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media and Pioneer have also been promoting the standardization of organic dye recording media, and this spring, a recording format (Low to High Type format) for organic dye BD-R has been adopted into the BD-R Format Ver. 1.2.
With this standardization, the mass production of organic dye recording media has now become possible with BD-R. Discs with organic dye do not require large-scale investments in facilities so that the current coating facilities for CD-R and DVD-R can be used for BD production lines with only minor adjustments, making low priced discs a possibility.

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Great news for all people on the BD-camp. Cheaper discs is always a good thing!