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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by al2o3cr on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:43AM (#7373555)
Ah yes, this must be targeting the ever-popular "people who didn't pay attention to any of Sony's OTHER proprietary formats that have now been utterly abandoned" market.
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Re:Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format by hga on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:02PM (#7373676)
I've not heard of Sony doing this in the "professional" market, e.g. while AIT/SAIT has been abandoned, Amazon indicates you can still buy tape cartridges. But, yeah, if you went with them right now you're wishing you went with LTO, or have already switched or started.

On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7372595 indicates Panasonic is not trustworthy in this area.

Maybe give this 5-10 years and see if has staying power, adoption by others, etc. The LTO ecosystem shows this sort of thing can be done.

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