Verbatim Blu-ray HD DVD Features and Benefits, Why Verbatim?, About Verbatim, CD-R dye, DVD-R dye

Why Verbatim?

Verbatim offers the complete solution for all your needs. From optical media and memory cards to printable photo paper and batteries, Verbatim is

the right choice for future technology, today.

Verbatim aims to ensure that all of our products carrying the Verbatim brand meet the exact high quality standards that our customers have come to expect.

Our research and development teams are continually creating new products and enhancements on current products. This results in early launches of new products like Blu-ray and HD DVD-R plus latest speed generations in DVD, whilst improving printable surfaces and establishing features like Hard Coat.

Our business model and dedicated employees have earned us our sought after leadership position and the top market share in Europe for recordable CD and DVD media. It is a position we have worked hard to achieve, and we will work even harder to maintain it.

About Verbatim

Verbatim is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, based in Japan. Mitsubishi Kagaku Media’s wide-range of operations makes it one of the leading chemical companies in the world.

Yokohama Research Centre

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media’s pioneering strength is visible in its products, for which the research and development is carried out in the Yokohama Research Centre. The company also has strong relationships with the major hardware manufacturers in the market. These two strengths benefit Verbatim by ensuring not only the latest technologies and products first to market, but also that optical discs bearing our brand are the standard that many hardware companies test their recorders on, making our discs superbly compatible.

Features and Benefits

•Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, Verbatims parent company, have perfected the Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies with on-going research and development to assure offering the best products on the market.

•Verbatim’s BD-R discs have a newly developed inorganic recording layer called MABL, whilst our BD-RE use the DVD proven SERL technology, enhanced to the new Blu-ray standards. These patented technologies ensure superb quality recording with the blue laser resulting in long archival lifetime and excellent “playback” performance.

•Verbatim’s Hard Coat ScratchGuard (0,002mmm) layer of the Verbatim Blu-ray disc protects the discs from damage from

scratches, fingerprints, dust and fluids. Verbatim Hard Coat is steel-wool tested and offers the ultimate protection against damage and contamination from day to day handling.

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•Verbatim’s research in HD DVD-R resulted in a new generation of the proven AZO dye. With its golden colour it stands for reliability and perfect recording. This ensures that each Verbatim HD DVD-R enjoys excellent playback performance and long archival stability.

•Verbatim’s proven production technology and experience ensures perfect recording on every Blu-ray or HD DVD disc supplied to our customers. Therefore Verbatim offers the same lifetime warranty for Blu-ray and HD DVD that it offers to each of its CD and DVD discs.