Sony Ships its Blu-Ray Disc Media

Sony announced commercial shipments in the U.S. of its 25GB single layer Blu-ray Disc recording media with "AccuCORE" technology. In addition, a dual layer 50GB capacity disc is set to debut in June. AccuCORE provide scratch resistance, archival capabilities and temperature durability.



Sony's Blu-ray media also supports a 2x recording speed, which provides a transfer rate of up to 72 Mbps. The BD-R (write-once) 25GB and BD-RE (rewritable) 25GB recording media have suggested retail prices of $20 and $25, respectively. The soon to come BD-R 50GB and BD-RE 50GB recording media will have suggested retail prices of $48 and $60, respectively.

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