Panasonic Develops World's First Chipset for BD Drive Which Records, Plays Blu-ray Disc (BD), DVD, and CD Formats.Tokyo, Japan, Nov 18, 2005 - (JCNN) - Panasonic, the brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial is known, announced November 17 that itdeveloped a chipset for disc drives that records and plays Blu-ray Disc (BD), DVD-Multi (DVD-RAM A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by the DVD Forum. Using phase change technology, DVD-RAMs are like removable hard disks, and the media can be rewritten 100,000 times compared to 1,000 times for DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first DVD-RAM drives with a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5. , DVD-R, DVD-RW (DVD-Read Write) A rewritable (re-recordable) DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD Forum. Also called "DVD Dash RW" and "DVD Minus RW," DVD-RW uses phase change recording. The media hold 4.7GB per side and can be rewritten 1,000 times. , and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. ), +R, +RW, and all CD formats. Blu-ray Disc format, which use a blue-violet laser, is being promoted as a standard for next-generation optical discs. So far chipsets for BD-R/BD-RE and DVD/CD were commercialized separately. However, demand for a BD drive that is compatible with all BD/DVD/CD media formats increases. T he chipset achieves the industry's highest record/play BD performance. BD drives with DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. record/play and CD record/play functions can be easily manufactured. Panasonic will start sample shipments in December 2005 and mass production in January 2006. Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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