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A group of four manufacturers has announced what it describes as "the successful development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc, the write-once next generation DVD disc, which can be easily produced at high volume on standard DVD-Recordable production lines".
Hitachi Maxell and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim, two of Japan's leading manufacturers of optical disc media, have separately tested and verified the manufacturability of the write-once discs, which use a new organic dye specifically developed for blue-laser applications, and confirmed the prospect of volume production. The new dye is the result of a joint development project by Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, a key manufacturer of dyes for DVD-Recordable discs, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim and Toshiba Corporation.
Hitachi Maxell and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media/Verbatim...