{"id":977,"date":"2013-07-29T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-07-29T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:16:21","slug":"sony-panasonic-join-forces-to-create-next-optical-disc-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/sony-panasonic-join-forces-to-create-next-optical-disc-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony &#038; Panasonic Join Forces to Create Next Optical Disc Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/8ido18000000ibjx.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-978\" alt=\"8ido18000000ibjx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/8ido18000000ibjx.gif\" width=\"798\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sony Corporation (\u2018Sony\u2019) and Panasonic Corporation (\u2018Panasonic\u2019) today announced that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of jointly developing a next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs, with the objective of expanding their archive business for long-term digital data storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.net\/SonyInfo\/News\/Press\/201307\/13-0729E\/\">-via <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good news for early adopters of 4K televisions as well as the medical imaging community and data centers alike.\u00a0 As data continues to grow the demand for a cheap long term storage alternative to magnetic storage is still robust.<\/p>\n<p>With metered data from major ISPs and the cost of data pipes increasing day by day (looked at your cable\/internet bill lately?) this is welcome news.<\/p>\n<p>One must ponder if this sets up Sony\/Panasonics solution for a HDD vs Bluray type battle with the optical disk currently being developed at <a href=\"http:\/\/ge.geglobalresearch.com\/blog\/breakthrough-in-micro-holographic-data-storage\/\">General Electric<\/a>? Clearly GE has a captivated audience in their healthcare imaging sector with the gigantic files associated with modern day MRI\/PET and CT scans.<\/p>\n<p>Still the question remains- is the market big enough for two major players\/formats?<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell, for more updates about the current state of optical media and long term archival options such as CD\/DVD, UDO and Magnetic Media please stop back often.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corporation (\u2018Sony\u2019) and Panasonic Corporation (\u2018Panasonic\u2019) today announced that they have signed a basic agreement with the objective of jointly developing a next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs, with the objective of expanding their archive business for long-term digital &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/sony-panasonic-join-forces-to-create-next-optical-disc-format\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,84,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blu-ray","category-dvd-dual-layer","category-dvd-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}