Optical Industry Leaders Announce New UDO-DMD Media Format For Distribution And Archival Storage Of HD DVD Content
Published by Admin on 14.9.06 at 9/14/2006 01:58:00 PM.
Based on professional blue laser UDO technology, DMD drives and media have been optimised to meet the stringent security and reliability requirements of the HD DVD content industry. Many studios today depend on magnetic tape and RAID systems to transport and archive valuable content. Video content is often lost on tapes because they are fragile for transport and unreliable for long-term storage, and managing rapidly growing data on RAID is insecure and cost prohibitive for archives that must be maintained for many years. By contrast, UDO-DMD provides an extremely stable media housed in a robust cartridge that has a data life far greater than tape or RAID storage. To minimise the risk of content piracy, the new DMD media cannot be written and read in standard UDO drives. DMD also provides physical WORM (Write Once Read Many) recording for content authenticity and an additional cartridge locking security feature to minimise the risk of valuable content loss.
Each of the three companies making the announcement today brings a wealth of technology and industry experience to the alliance. Plasmon will manufacture DMD drives and media; MKM will manufacture DMD media and provide
global media distribution under their Verbatim brand, and MTC will be championing the technology worldwide through its extensive expertise in the video content and mastering industry. DMD will initially be released with a 30GB content capacity (DMD30), growing to 60GB in 2007 (DMD60) and will have additional data capacity for AACS copy protection and encryption information.
"While UDO-DMD is a new product, it is based on our already well established UDO technology" explained Nigel Street, CEO at Plasmon. "With thousands of organisations worldwide relying on UDO to archive their valuable business records, it has a very successful track record in professional archive environments that demand content authenticity and longevity. The optimised features that we have added to UDO-DMD will provide the HD DVD content industry with an already proven technology that has the capabilities they need to address their unique business requirements." Link
Each of the three companies making the announcement today brings a wealth of technology and industry experience to the alliance. Plasmon will manufacture DMD drives and media; MKM will manufacture DMD media and provide
global media distribution under their Verbatim brand, and MTC will be championing the technology worldwide through its extensive expertise in the video content and mastering industry. DMD will initially be released with a 30GB content capacity (DMD30), growing to 60GB in 2007 (DMD60) and will have additional data capacity for AACS copy protection and encryption information.
"While UDO-DMD is a new product, it is based on our already well established UDO technology" explained Nigel Street, CEO at Plasmon. "With thousands of organisations worldwide relying on UDO to archive their valuable business records, it has a very successful track record in professional archive environments that demand content authenticity and longevity. The optimised features that we have added to UDO-DMD will provide the HD DVD content industry with an already proven technology that has the capabilities they need to address their unique business requirements." Link