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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.
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.
• 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.

What is Blu-ray?
Blue Laser
Blu-ray discs (BD) get their
name from a combination
of the words blue and
optical ray. The format was
developed by the Blu-ray
Discs Association (BDA),
which is made up of a
group of leading consumer
electronics, major film studios
and PC companies, including our
parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media. Verbatim, as a
subsidiary of MKM, has therefore, first hand access to the
latest in Blu-ray technology.
The Blu-ray disc’s higher storage capacity is enabled
by a blue laser that has a shorter wavelength than the
standard red laser used in CD (780nm) and DVD (650nm)
technology. Blu-ray disc utilises a blue laser with a
wavelength of only 405nm combined with a strong lens
system with a numerical aperture of 0.85. This results in a
ultra-small laser spot which allows writing smaller data pits
which increases the amount of data on the disc. Due to the
small data entry spot on the disc surface hard coating is
needed on Blu-ray discs.
How a BD Disc Works
Red Laser (DVD)
technology
Blu-ray (BD-R/RE)
technology
Data
Laser
Disc Label
Minimum pit length = 0.15μm Track pitch = 0.32μm Capacity = 25GB
Data
Polycarbonate Layer 1
Recording Layer
Reflective Layer
Polycarbonate Layer 2
Disc Label
Minimum pit length = 0.4μm Track pitch = 0.74μm Capacity = 4.7GB
Hardcoat Layer
Cover Layer
Protective Layer
Recording Layer
Protective Layer
Reflective Layer
Polycarbonate Layer

What is HD DVD?
High Density
HD DVD stands for ‘High-Density Digital Versatile Disc’. It
is promoted by Toshiba, NEC and others and is supported
by four major film studios. Our parent company, Mitsubishi
Kagaku Media, is a member of the HD DVD development
technology group which means that Verbatim has access
to the latest in HD DVD technology.
The HD DVD disc, like the Blu-ray disc has a higher storage
capacity using the same blue laser of 405nm wavelength
compared to the standard red laser used in CD (780nm)
and DVD (650nm) technology. However, HD DVD uses a
lens system with a numerical aperture of 0.65 resulting in
a slightly bigger laser spot. This makes the laser and disc
less susceptible to scratches and fingerprints so that HD
DVD requires no hard coating on the disc surface.
How a HD DVD Disc Works
Red Laser (DVD)
technology
Blue Laser (HD DVD)
technology
Data
Laser
Disc Label
Minimum pit length = 0.173μm Track pitch = 0.40μm Capacity = 15GB
Data
Polycarbonate Layer 1
Recording Layer
Reflective Layer
Polycarbonate Layer 2
Disc Label
Minimum pit length = 0.4μm Track pitch = 0.74μm Capacity = 4.7GB
Polycarbonate Layer 1
Recording Layer
Reflective Layer
Polycarbonate Layer 2

High Definition Media Facts
Experience it with Verbatim.
With less than 10 years since the debut of the DVD format, the ‘Next Generation’ of optical media is already on the production line
and the demand for the new revolution in home entertainment – High Definition (HD) is on the rise.
High Definition Television provides an unsurpassed picture quality and a remarkable high-end surround sound. With the superb
resolution, dynamic contrast, vivid colours and remarkably clear sound effects, high definition brings an additional dimension to
your visual entertainment.
Since the 1950s, Hollywood has been using 70mm film to achieve widescreen shots, sharp pictures and most importantly, high
quality sound. Since our television systems during the past 50 have had a lower resolution than these films, reproduction was
of a lesser quality.
Nowadays, with the development of High Definition Media, the same Hollywood quality can be viewed on the new High Definition
televisions which are now on the market (HDTV).
With the expected growth of HDTV, there is a consequent growth in the recording of the HD television programming. Today,
recording 2 hours of standard definition television in high quality requires a full 4.7GB DVD disc. High Definition content – with
its increased resolution and digital sound tracks requires an ever greater amount of storage capacity. What does this mean? For
consumers who want to record High Definition content, a higher capacity DVD is needed that can store
this content with increased resolution and digital sound tracks.
Verbatim has recognised this need and to meet the demands of the market, we are offering the two current formats on the market:
Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs.

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Blu-ray Specifications
Disc Type HD DVD-R
(Write-once)
HD DVD-RW*
(Re-writable)
Recording Layer Single
layer
Dual
layer
Single
layer
Dual
layer
Recording capacity 15GB 30GB 15GB 30GB
Recording layer Organic dye
material
Phase-change
material
Laser wavelength 405 nm 405 nm
Lens numerical
aperture (NA) 0.65 0.65
Standard data
transfer rate 36.55 Mbps 36.55 Mbps
Disc diameter 120 mm 120 mm
Disc thickness 1.2 mm
(0.6mm + 0.6mm)
1.2 mm
(0.6mm + 0.6mm)
Tracking Groove
recording
Groove
recording
Track pitch 0.40 μm 0.40 μm
Shortest mark length 0.204 μm 0.204 μm
* Specifications of HD DVD-RW have yet to be finalised
Disc Type BD-R
(Write-once)
BD-RE
(Re-writable)
Recording Layer Single
layer
Dual
layer
Single
layer
Dual
layer
Recording capacity 25GB 50GB 25GB 50GB
Recording layer Inorganic
material
Phase-change
material
Laser wavelength 405 nm 405 nm
Lens numerical
aperture (NA) 0.85 0.85
Standard data
transfer rate 36 Mbps 36 Mbps
Disc diameter 120 mm 120 mm
Disc thickness 1.2 mm 1.2 mm
Cover Layer 0.1mm 0.1mm
Tracking Groove
recording
Groove
recording
Track pitch 0.32 μm 0.32 μm
Shortest mark length 0.149 μm 0.149 μm
Specifications
HD DVD Specifications
Roadmap
Q1 2007 Q2 2007 Q3 2007 Q4 2007 2008 2009
BD-R
25GB 2x 4x 6x 8x
BD-RE
25GB 2x 4x
BD-R
50GB 2x 4x 6x
BD-RE
50GB 2x 4x
BD-R/RE
8cm 2x
HD DVD-R
15GB 1x 2x 4x 6x
HD DVD-R
30GB 1x
HD DVD-RW
15GB 2x