Plasmon sent out a press release this morning, announcing that they've started shipping their new UDO-DMD drives and media to HD DVD content management and mastering solution providers.
Plasmon (LSE: PLM - News), the trusted source in data archiving, today announced that they have begun initial shipments of their new UDO-DMD (Ultra Density Optical - Digital Master Disk) drives and media to HD DVD content management and mastering solution providers for testing and integration. The UDO-DMD format is part of a technology and business alliance between Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM), Memory Tech Corporation (MTC), and Plasmon to provide secure distribution and long-term storage of HD DVD content between authoring studios and disc mastering facilities.
Plasmon has passed a major milestone with the initial shipment of DMD to application providers in the high density content mastering market. Two strategic solution providers currently working with DMD are DCA - the optical industry's leading provider of world-class signal processing technology, and MTC - who together with Toshiba developed the original HD DVD technology. Both companies have already been shipped evaluation DMD drives and media for system testing and integration into their applications. First generation DMD30 (30.2GB) is designed for the distribution and archive of new HD DVD and existing DVD content. Second generation DMD60 (60GB) is scheduled to launch in mid 2007 and will also support Blu-ray.
If you'd like to read more, Plasmon's entire press release can be found here.
