Verbatim announces 8 cm Blu-ray Recordable/Rewriteable discs
So you’re thinking about getting that new Hitachi Blu-ray Camcorder right? You’re going to need some media for it then since it uses 8cm Blu-ray discs. Well Verbatim is right there with you with a new line of Mini Blu-ray Recordable/Rewriteable (BD-R/RE) media. (NOTE - the picture to the right is of the 12 cm discs). These 8 cm discs provide up to one hour of 1080i video on a single side and two hours of video with resolutions of 1440 x 1080i. The Mini Blu-ray discs will provide the same read/write performance characteristics as their 12cm cousins.
These new discs will be made available in the same order as the Hitachi camcorders which means you’ll see them first in Japan followed by rollouts in the rest of the world - in the order that the Hitachi camcorders come out to the marketplace.