August 30, 2004 11:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
Marshall Media Inc. Demonstrates ``Direct
Write'' Technology Capability
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30,
2004--Marshall Media Inc. (MMI), a privately held media company, announced today
that it has successfully demonstrated 201 Gigabyte ROM optical media "direct
write" technology capability, creating 70 nanometer lines between 40 nanometer
space tracks for use with the next generation of blue violet laser diodes. "The
company's patented MMI-Burn Technology provides 15 times higher density than
Blu-Ray and faster CD and DVD manufacturing with superior duplication quality.
The company plans to incorporate the MMI-Burn technology into its automated
On-Demand manufacturing and packaging system in 2005," stated Charlie Marshall,
Founder and CEO.
The present industry standard for the duplication
process of a CD is 1 to 2 minutes, and for DVD, 12 to 14 minutes. One major
benefit of the MMI-Burn technology is that it uses a "non-contact" duplication
process that places the content on each disc in 1/10 of a second, at the same
time providing "master disc" quality for every disk.
"This new technology puts MMI 5-10 years ahead of
all existing media replication and duplication technologies," said John Trepl
II, Chief Science Officer/Engineer for MMI. "We can now meet, and dramatically
improve, industry production, with the added bonus of vastly improved quality
reproduction by decreasing jitter to immeasurable levels although, we are
inclined to defer to the critical listener," stated Trepl.
Data storage is limited by the pit feature size.
Reducing feature size allows more data pits to be placed on the same size disc.
The smaller pits have a tighter spiral track pitch, so more data can be stored.
MMI's expanded density adds a new generation of density flexibility to CD/DVD
manufacturing:
Year Smallest Pit Spiral
Pitch Layer
Capacity
CD:
1982
833nm
1,600nm .7
GB
DVD:
1994
398nm
740nm 4.7 GB
Blu
Ray: 2006
150nm
320nm 27.0
GB
EBR:
T.B.D.
69nm
100nm 201.0
GB
MMI:
2004
40nm
80nm All of the above
Marshall Media Inc., headquartered
in Burbank, CA, a privately held media company, is the developer of the world's
first automated instant manufacturing system for CDs and DVDs. The company plans
to produce CD/DVDs ON-DEMAND enabling customer orders to be reproduced, printed,
packaged and shipped within 24-48 hours of order initiation. Marshall Media is
the first fully automated, 24/7 manufacturing system designed exclusively to
produce digital CD/DVDs. In addition to the traditional CD/DVD market, the
company expects to offer additional vertical services such as Digital Streaming
Media, intellectual property administrative services, and technology
licensing.
Source: Business Wire
