Pioneer Unveils Archival Blu-ray Recorder and Discs

Pioneer Corporation announced its new archival Blu-ray recorder (BDR-WX01DM) and compatible BD-R discs (IPS-BD11J03P).

Pioneer Unveils Two Commercial-Grade Blu-ray Disc Recorders

Pioneer Japan announced its new BDR-PR1MC-W and BDR-PR1MA-W commercial-grade Blu-ray Disc recorders, which are intended for long term data storage applications.

OPARG Champions Optical Disc Archiving

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim), Pioneer Corporation and Victor Advanced Media (JVC) announced they have established the Optical Archive Group (OPARG) to promote the use of BD-R and DVD-R discs for archival data storage.