Blu-ray LTH Type Discs
Verbatim BD-R LTH media is manufactured with an organic dye that turns the discs reflectivity during recording from low to high. Other BD-R discs use the high to low recording method. Additionally, BD-R LTH is manufactured on converted CD-R/DVD-R production lines, which utilize a spin coating process and allow excess materials to be recycled. These two cost-cutting measures let us pass along the savings to you. Upon introduction of the BD-R LTH media, key hardware manufacturers like Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic and LG have worked to assure that their burners are fully compatible.
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BD-R LTH type Product introduction

Company Confidential

What is BD-R LTH type?
It is just another type of BD-R, specified in Spring 2008 by Blu-ray Disc Alliance Recording layer is different: First type of BD-R is made of inorganic material Signal changes polarity from High-to-Low (HTL) AZO BD-R is made of organic material Signal changes polarity from Low-to-High (LTH) BDA states mandatory use of wording BD-R LTH type on packaging and disc label

What is LTH and HTL?

Low to High(LTH) and High to Low(HTL) correspond to the reflectivity change by recording, resulting the opposite signal polarity. LTH and HTL are based on a nature of the inorganic and organic recording layer material, respectively.
LTH(Organic dye BD-R) Unrecorded

HTL(Inorganic BD-R/RE)

Recorded

What does LTH type mean?

The polarity of the signal changes This is like having either white letters on black background or black letters on white background
If you got a camera reader, you would just need to reprogramme it (= Firmware update) to read both options.
What about the BD drives?
New drives are compatible because this has already been implemented in firmware Older drives need a firmware update for Read/Write compatibility We cooperate with the drive manufacturers All BD drives are affected: Players and ROM-drives, PC burners and videorecorders Playstation 3 is compatible with update from 03/2008
LTH BD-R support by BD burners
Maker SONY LITE-ON Buffalo LG LG LG LG LG LG Panasonic Panasonic Panasonic Panasonic Panasonic Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer LaCie Model BWU-300S DH-4B1S BRHC-6316U2 GBW-H10N GGW-H20N, L BE06LU10 BH08NS20,LS20 WH08LS20 BH10NS30 SW-5582 SW-5583 SW-5584 UJ-210,215 UJ-220,225 BDR-101A BDR-202 BDR-203 BDR-205 301856U BD Write Speed 8X 4X 6X 4X 6X 6X 8X 8X 10X 2X 4X 8X 1X 2X 2X 4X 8X 12X 8X BD-R LTH Type 2x SL 2X 2X (need to FW up to 7P5B) 2X (need to FW up to XJ04) NO 2X (need to FW up to XL04,YL04) 2x (need to FW up to YE05) 2X (need to FW up to EL02-04) 2X (need to FW up) 2X 2X (need to FW up to BBF4) 2X (need to FW up to 1.02) 2X NO NO NO NO 2X 2X 2x
LTH BD-R support by ROM drives / players
Media Type Maker SONY LG LITE-ON PLDS/Plextor SONY SONY SONY SONY SAMSUNG SAMSUNG Panasonic Panasonic Panasonic Sharp Sharp Pioneer Model BDUX10S GGC-H20L iHES206 PX-B310SA BDP-S350 BDP-S360 BDP-S500ES Playstation 3 BD-P1500 BD-P1600 DMP-BD35K DMP-BD60 DMP-BV100 BD-HP1 BD-HP21 BDP-LX70 BDP-LX80 BDP-LX71,91 BDP-LX52 BDP-120,320 BD370 NB500SL9 NB530MGX BD-R LTH Type 2x SL Play* YES YES NO NO YES YES YES YES(FW ver2.20-) YES NO YES YES YES NO YES NO YES YES YES YES NO NO YES BD-R HTL type 2x SL Play* YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES TES YES NO YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

BD combo (BD read only)

BD player And PS3

LG SYLVANIA MAGNAVOX

*Disc recorded with BD-MV format was confirmed.
Where can you get the latest FW for LTH?
Some of leading web-site to get new FW
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/Home.aspx http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/FIRMWARE/ http://www.firmwarehq.com/
For details, ask drive manufactures about LTH support
MKM/Verbatim Confidential
Maker SONY LITE-ON Buffalo LG LG LG LG LG LG BD Writers Model BD Write Speed BWU-300S 8X DH-4B1S BRHC-6316U2 GBW-H10N GGW-H20N, L BE06LU10 BH08NS20,LS20 WH08LS20 BH10NS30 4X 6X 4X 6X 6X 8X 8X 10X Verbatim Media BD-R LTH Type 2x SL 2X 2X (need to FW up to 7P5B) 2X (need to FW up to XJ04) NO 2X (need to FW up to XL04,YL04) 2x (need to FW up to YE05) 2X (need to FW up to EL02-04) 2X (need to FW up) 2X Web site comments http://www.liteonit.com/global/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=154 http://buffalo.jp/download/driver/hd/brhc-6316_fw.html Japanese Web site but just click "download", base drive: LG GGW-H20N
LG officially doesn't release http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx?DriveId=1667 any firmware update because these drives are for OEM model. Need to ask http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/BH08NS20/files.html drive maker directly. coildn't find This model is for OEM. Need to ask third party to get the latest FW. But Buffalo JPN release the new one for Buffalo BR-H2 series. Don't know if that FW meets other OEM makers model. (Japanese This model is for OEM. Need to ask third party to get the latest FW. But Buffalo JPN release the new one for for buffalo BR-416 series Don't know if that FW meet other OEM makers model (Japanese Web site

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Firmware/SingleModel.aspx?DriveId=163 4,

Panasonic

SW-5582
2X (need to FW up to BBF4)
http://buffalo.jp/download/driver/hd/br-h2_fw.html

SW-5583

2X (need to FW up to 1.02)
http://buffalo.jp/download/driver/hd/br-416_fw.html
Panasonic SW-5584 8X 2X Panasonic UJ-210,215 1X NO Panasonic UJ-220,225 2X NO Pioneer BDR-101A 2X NO Pioneer BDR-202 4X NO 8X 2X Pioneer BDR-203 Pioneer BDR-205 12X 2X LaCie 301856U 8X 2x Note) not guarantee over write speed. Some OEM drive/ PC (ex.Dell, HP etc.) may have the same model#. But the function and writing speed depends on their FW.
Low cost and High efficiency of LTH disc production based on experience
Key difference in manufacturing is in formation process of the recording layer The cost difference in HTL vs. LTH will finally be similar to that in RW vs. R in CD/DVD era. More then 50% higher production efficiency is expected for LTH(dye) disc than HTL(inorganic) disc. HTL BD-R Recording layer Material Manufacturing process Inorganic alloy or composite Sputtering Vacuum process Sequential operation Products with similar process CD-RW DVD-RAM DVD+-RW MO BD-RE LTH BD-R Organic dye Spin-coating Air ambient Easy parallel operation CD-R DVD+R,-R

Spin-coating technology

Key process for LTH BD-R disc manufacturing is spincoating, applied for the dye recording layer, cover-coat layer and hard-coat layer, which is higher efficiency process than sputtering in vacuum system.
Photo: Spin-coating process of LTH B-R recording layer (The dye solution is being dispensed from a nozzle)
High efficiency recycle of material
More than 80% material in a LTH BD-R disc manufacturing process is recycled, especially in the spincoating process Especially recycling of the recording material, i.e., organic dye in spin coating process, is unique against inorganic material usage/waste in sputtering process for HTL media.

Economy and Eco-friendly

Photo: Spin-coating process of LTH B-R recording layer (Dispensed dye is spread by spinning)
Evidence of reliability: >50years archival life expected
Lifetime estimation (80%RH)
1.E+04 1.E+03 1.E+02 Lifetime [years] 1.E+01 1.E+00 1.E-01 1.E-02 1.E-03 2.7
Writer Reader EOL : Pioneer BDR203 : Expert BDT-SD1 : 4.3e-3(SER)
Archival life(mean) 97years Shelf life(mean) 12years

23C/80%RH

3.1 1000/T [1/K]
Evidence of reliability: Good light exposure resistance
Xenon lamp, 550W, duration=40hours.There is no significant increase of SER. Write Pioneer BDR203 Read: Pulstec SD1
Evidence of the reliability: Good light exposure resistance based on stable absorbance of the AZO dye itself

Stable as DVD-R dye

Evidence of reliability: over 1million cycle read stability

Jitter (also SER) is maintained well within book spec after 1e+6 times of continuous reading.
Evidence of reliability: Stain-resistance(artificial finger print)
Write/read was performed after applying AFP. Error level is maintained within book spec.
Roadmap: High speed recording
1-6X BD-R media is specified in Ver1.3 BD-R book and actually commercialized from MKM in Japan in Oct. 2009. Over 8X speed recordable media is feasible and under development for mass production
LTH Dual layer: feasibility confirmed
L0 Read Stability (HF 0.7mW 2x Recording & Reading )
Data to CLock Jitter(%) 1,000 10,000 Trailing Leading

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Read Cycle
L1 Read Stability(HF 0.7mW 2x Recording & Reading)
Data to CLock Jitter(%) 1,000 Read Cycle 10,000 100,000 1,000,000 Trailing Leading
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