Latin America. Sony and Panasonic jointly formulated Archival Disc, a new standard for next-generation professional optical discs, to expand the digital data storage market in the long term.
Optical discs have self-protection properties against the environment, such as their resistance to dust and water, and can also withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored. They also allow intergenerational compatibility between different formats, ensuring that data can continue to be read even with the evolution of formats. This makes them robust media for long-term content storage.
Recognizing that optical discs will need to accommodate much larger volumes of data in the future, particularly in the wake of the expected future growth of the file market, Sony and Panasonic have been involved in the joint development of a standard for next-generation professional optical discs.
These efforts resulted in the formulation of Archival Disc, a new standard for next-generation professional optical discs, of which the technology planning, logo and specifications are described below.
Both Sony and Panasonic plan to release systems with a recording capacity of 300 GB per disc starting in the third quarter of 2015.
In addition, the two companies plan to leverage their respective technologies to further expand recording capacity per disc to 500 GB and 1 TB.
In recent times, the demand for archiving capabilities has increased significantly in the film industry as well as in cloud data centers that handle large volumes of data, where advances in network services have led to the rapid growth of data volumes.
Sony and Panasonic have experienced successful work in the development of Blu-ray DiscTM technology. The two companies plan to actively promote this standard for next-generation professional optical discs in the professional field, to offer an effective solution to protect valuable data in the future.
To achieve higher playback signal capacity and quality, crosstalk cancellation technology and Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) superior signal processing technology have been used.
