Ecma Approves CD-ROM File System Standard

Ecma International announced it has approved and published the 5th edition of its ECMA-119 standard “Volume and file structure of CDROM for information interchange,” which is more popularly known as the ISO 9660 file system.

ECMA Publishes CD and DVD Lifetime Test Standard

ECMA International announced that it has published a new standard that specifies an accelerated aging test method for estimating the lifetime of the retrievability of information stored on recordable and rewritable CD (CD-R/RW) and DVD (DVD±R/RW/RAM) discs.

ECMA Updates Optical Media Archival Lifetime Standard

ECMA International announced that its 99th General Assembly, held in Tokyo, June 17, 2010, has approved updates to its ECMA-379 standard (3rd edition) for estimating the archival lifetime of optical media as well as ECMA-382 (2nd edition), which defines the physical parameters of DVD-R Dual-Layer (DL) discs.