Eindhoven, Kahl, Anif, Church Crookham, Sassenberg, August 26, 2008. As with all Optical Disc formats, the standard only describes the properties of the final disc. This leaves room for alternative manufacturing processes in order to come to the well defined result.
However, this also means that the properties of the intermediate tools are not defined. This is not in the interest of the Optical Disc Manufacturing industry.
Therefore, a group of leading companies has set out to, at least for Blu-ray Disc, create a de facto standard for the stamper. The stamper is a crucial part in the production chain, and can be well defined in terms of characteristics and properties. It is also the interface between mastering and replication facilities.
Over several months, the group has defined and verified the optimum BD stamper’s physical characteristics, based on the members’ technology and expert knowledge.
This group consisted of Sony, Singulus Mastering and Technologies, Sibert and technotrans.
For more information or a copy of the BD Stamper Characteristics document, please contact one of the members:
Singulus Mastering: | Info@Singulus.nl | |
Sony DADC: | Blu-ray@SonyDADC.com | |
Sibert: | Info@Sibert.co.uk | |
technotrans: | BluRay@technotrans.de |