Verbatim's parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical, has announced that they will
be releasing their new 30GB HD DVD-R DL media to the Japanese market on July 20th. Here's part of their press release, translated from
Japanese:
Mitsubishi chemical media
corporation (head office: The tokyo Minato-ku, president: Otsuka heavily virtue), single sided 2 layer 30GB for the PC data HD DVD-R
(postscript type) we sell the disk on this year July 20th.
This corporation in 2006 July sold the single sided 2 layer 30GB HD
DVD-R disk for video recording for the first time in the world, digital hi-vision broadcast image while it was hi-vision picture quality
actualized the fact that it records to the long haul disk. This time it continues to this, receives the sale of the corresponding
equipment, single sided 2 layer 30GB for the PC data HD DVD-R (postscript type) sells the disk.
According to AV Watch, Mitsubishi Chemical's 30GB HD DVD-R DL
media is expected to cost about 4,800 Yen ($33US). More information can be found here.
