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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by nemasu on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:12AM (#7371797)
Sounds interesting. Hopefully they will release more technical information about what makes it "archival" quality. Seems like a normal Blu-ray at first glance.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by robmcm on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:28AM (#7371825)
Sounds like they have a disk with a large storage capacity and perhaps a slower read time and the marketing just did it's self.

I would have imagined some special material that can last longer and is at lower risk from scratches...

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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by fur0n on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:34AM (#7371839)
like it says, higher capacity (300GB, 500GB, and 1TB) along with higher redundancy.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by deletes on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:37AM (#7371849)
But they don't say how well it does, compared to the problem of cd/dvd, that fail to work after 10 years for no apparent reason( no visible physical damage ).
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