Optical Discs

Ecma Golden Jubilee

June 29th, 2011
by
Paul Weijenbergh
 The Optical Disc World (1/4)

• The Beginning 1975 – 1985

• Laser Disc ( 300 mm / 30 min)

• 30 cm discs with analog video
• Philips standard  ISO/IEC standard
• 12” WORM (300 mm / 1.25 GByte)
• 12 inch discs for Write Once data recording
• Direct ISO/IEC standard
• 5 ¼ “ MO ( 130 mm / 650 Mbyte )
• 130 mm discs for Read & Write date recording
• Ecma  ISO/IEC Standard
• 90 mm MO disc (90 mm / 128 MByte )
• 90 mm discs for Read & Write data recording
• Ecma  ISO/IEC standard
 The Optical Disc World (2/4)

• The Boost 1985 – 2000

• Introduction of CD 1982
• CD-Audio
• 120 mm disc
• 74 minutes of Digital Audio

• CD-ROM
• 650 Mbytes Read Only Data

• CD-R
• 650 Mbytes of Recordable Data

• CD-RW
• 650 Mbytes of Rewritable Data
All Ecma standards
 The Optical Disc World (3/4)

• Mature Market 2000 – 2015

• Introduction of DVD in 1996
• DVD-Video
• 2 hours of Standard Definition Video

• DVD-R & DVD+R

• 9,4 Gbytes of Recordable Data

• DVD-RAM & DVD+RW & DVD-RW

• 9,4 Gbytes of Rewritable Data

All Ecma standards

 The Optical Disc World (4/4)

• The last one (?) 2015 – 2025

• Introduction of Blu-ray Disc in 2006
• BD-Video
• 2 hours of High Definition Video

• BD-Rewritable
• Single & Double Layer 25/50 Gbytes
• Triple Layer 100 GBytes

• BD-Recordable
• Single & Double Layer 25/50 Gbytes
• Triple Layer 100 GBytes
• Quadruple Layer 128 GBytes

Ecma standards ???

 The Optical Density

1 7 38
 The Optical Market (1/2)

Read Only Discs

16000
Million
14000

12000

10000
CD
8000
DVD
6000 BD

4000

2000

0
Source
1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 Futuresource
Consulting Ltd
 The Optical Market (1/2)

Recordable Discs

14000 Million

12000

10000

8000
CD
6000 DVD

4000

2000
Source
0 TSR
&
1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 Futuresource
Consulting Ltd
 The Optical Market (1/2)

Total Discs

40000
Million
35000

30000

25000

20000
Total discs
15000

10000

5000

0 Source
TSR
&
1996 1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 Futuresource
Consulting Ltd
 The Optical Market (1/2)

Total Discs and Capacity

Million

Source
TSR
&
Futuresource
Consulting Ltd
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