Knowing Blu-Ray

Blu-ray discs (BD) get their name from a combination of the words blue and optical ray. The format was developed by the Blu-ray Discs Association (BDA), which is made up of a group of leading consumer electronics, major film studios and PC companies, including our parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media. Verbatim, as a subsidiary of MKM, has therefore, first hand access to the latest in Blu-ray technology. 

The Blu-ray disc’s higher storage capacity is enabled by a blue laser that has a shorter wavelength than the standard red laser used in CD (780nm) and DVD (650nm) technology. Blu-ray disc utilises a blue laser with a wavelength of only 405nm combined with a strong lens system with a numerical aperture of 0.85. This results in a ultra-small laser spot which allows writing smaller data pits which increases the amount of data on the disc. Due to the small data entry spot on the disc surface hard coating is needed on Blu-ray discs.


Features and Benefits
• Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatims parent company, have perfected the Blu-ray technology with on-going research and development to assure offering the best products on the market.
• Verbatim’s BD-R discs have a newly developed inorganic recording layer called MABL, this patented technology ensures superb quality recording, long archival lifetime and excellent “playback” performance. 
• Verbatim’s proven production technology and experience ensures perfect recording on every Blu-ray disc supplied to our customers. Therefore Verbatim offers the same lifetime warranty for Blu-ray that it offers to each of its CD and DVD discs.
• Blu-ray disc usage:- Data Storage & Backup: 5 movies DVD quality, 4800 Photos of 5MB, 7200 MP3 files (3.3MB)- Video / HDTV Recording- Development of video games and software- Pre-mastering for Film and TV Studios- Data / Software distribution