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To: E. Mark who wrote (35978)	9/16/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Thank you. I'm a Pro dealing with a Human like You who Hates Philosophy or Learning! I know what your all about and I DEVOUR DUDES like YOU! Your silly putty in my hands, so keep on talking. You know who I respect on this thread, although I've criticised them. David, John, Billy and Fred. They are extremely Smart. Listen to them. Read in between their lines. They know what their talking about. C-Cube is a Big Winner long term. If only you can handle the short term, which I tell you about. Resentment is for Inferior souls. Get a life and start Learning. Learning is the Truth of Life.

To: E. Mark who wrote (35978)	9/16/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Matsushita Develops 8.5GB Rewritable Optical Disk [called BS-RAM] nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Matsushita owns Panasonic, a CUBE partner. September 16, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. said it developed a rewritable, phase-change optical disk with double recording layers (dual-layer). It is a new technology for a DVD-RAM disk that can store 8.5GB per side, company officials said. Current DVD-RAM disks have a storage capacity of 2.6GB on a single side. DVD disks with dual-layers already have been used for read-only, or playback, disks. It reportedly was difficult to create dual-layer rewritable optical disks. The light absorption factor of the recording layers must be increased to realize rewritable optical disks, because heat energy from a laser is used to store data on them. But, this increase makes the outer layer absorb more light and the inner layer, which is further away from the laser head, does not get sufficient light. If the absorption factor is decreased, there will not be enough light for the outer layer, and thus, so a high-power laser becomes necessary. It had been assumed that the rewritable dual-layer system needs a semiconductor laser with an output at least twice as high as that of read-only optical disks. Matsushita developed a dual-layer system that needs almost the same level of laser output to rewrite on each of the recording layers, and reads out almost the same level of data from each of the two layers. This technology is called balanced structure random access memory (BS-RAM). It uses germanium-antimony-tellurium (GeSbTe), a material that has been used for phase-change recording films. The company said the laser output needed for the rewriting mode has been reduced to approximately 13mW, about 1.2 times that of conventional DVD-RAM disks. The optical system used for the experiments was the same as that for existing DVD-RAM drives. Its light-source wavelength was 658nm, and the numerical aperture of the objective lens was 0.6. That means a large storage capacity of 8.5GB for a single side could be realized by using existing DVD-RAM drives with only a few modifications. (Nikkei Electronics)