TDK to begin first shipment of blank, recordable Blu-ray discs (BDs)
Shipping of the first bare Blu-ray disc media to retailers nationwide has begun. TDK today announced it has started shipment of its 25 GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Discs.
Retail pricing is set at $19.99 for a 25 GB BD-R (recordable) and $24.99 for a 25 GB BD-RE (rewritable).
A 50 GB disc will be available later in the year with pricing set at $47.99 for a 50 GB BD-R and $59.99 for a 50 GB BD-RE. 50-piece 25 GB Blu-ray disc spindles are due out in the second quarter of 2006.
TDK Vice President of Marketing, Bruce Youmans, said Blu-ray discs (BDs) would set new standards in the industry and believes they are the most significant product introduced in the company’s history.
“From backing up today’s large capacity hard drives and servers to authoring and recording high definition video and sharing high resolution digital image collections, TDK Blu-ray Discs set new standards in recording and playback by offering unprecedented capacities, fast transfer rates and revolutionary durability,” he said.
TDK has created 100 GB quad-layer Blu-ray disc prototypes and is in the process of developing a 200 GB prototype for possible future release.
Blu-ray discs were originally released in Japan in April 2004, but came with a protective cartridge compared to the new cartridge-free media.
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