Petteri Pyyny
15 Apr 2004 14:36
Sony and TOPPAN PRINTING have announced that they've managed to develop a Blu-Ray -compliant optical disc made out of paper. Companies plan to announce specific details at the Optical Data Storage 2004 conference later this month.
The disc structure is 51 percent made out of paper and thus allows, according to TOPPAN, "high level of artistic label printing" and also is very easy to destroy as it can be cut exactly like normal, although slightly thicker, paper. A Blu-Ray disc can hold appx. 25 gigabytes on a single layer, single-sided disc and the format has been available already for over a year now. The format is backed by the major consumer electronics companies, but faces stiff competition from other emerging optical disc standards that also utilize blue-laser technology rather than the more traditional red laser technology used in CDs and DVDs.
Source: JCN Network