Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Phase
Advanced Disc for Archive

Date:

c. 2009

Material:

Polycarbonate disc, plastic caddy

Dimensions:

Disc 4.7 in. (120 mm),  caddy 4⅞ × 5⅜ × 9⁄32 in. (124.6 × 135.5 × 8 mm)

Company:

Panasonic

Location:

Osaka, Japan

A Blu-Ray disc packaged for medical imaging. It was available in either write-once or rewritable versions and with a 25 mb (single layer) or 50 mb (double layer) capacity. According to Panasonic, it had an expected lifetime of 50 years (CDRInfo 2009;  Panasonic 2014).

Brand graphics are printed on the shrinkwrap
References
⌃  Back to citationCDRInfo. 2009. Panasonic Presents Advanced Disc for Archive. CDRInfo. Nov. 20, 2009.
⌃  Back to citationPanasonic. 2014. Recording Media: Rewritable. Panasonic (Archived). 2024.