US company Millenniata has announced a new optical disc storage format that will not degrade over time and is compatible with standard DVD drives.

The company claims the discs created by its The M-DISC and M-READY drives, which will be on the market in September, will last “literally for a thousand years.” Standard DVD and Blu-ray discs break down after a time because of the organic dyes used in their production, whereas  the Millenniata drives permanently etch data onto the write layer of the disc

Hitachi-LG Data Storage has signed up to manufacture the M-READY DVD drives and market and sell them. All M-DISC compatible aftermarket drives will include the M-DISC logo indicating compatibility to write to M-DISCs. Any DVD drive will read the M-DISC.

“Millenniata’s technology has been tested and proven to provide long-lasting data storage,” said - Sang Hun Kim, Deputy CMO, Sales and Marketing Division at Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc. “We are pleased to partner with Millenniata to provide true permanent storage DVD technology that can stand the test of time.”

A recent study into the new format is available HERE.

One M-DISC has a DVD disc capacity of 4.7GB of space with comparable performance. Millenniata is currently working on a Blu-Ray version of M-DISC that will be announced at a later date.

www.millenniata.com