TDK ships first blu-ray discs

TDK started shipments of mass-production samples of its bare-type versions of its write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE Blu-ray discs.

The company introduced four models: the BD-R25 (single-side, single-layer, 25GB) and BD-R50 (single-side, dual-layer, 50GB) write-once types and BD-RE25 (single-side, single-layer, 25GB) and BD-RE50 (single-side, dual-layer, 50GB) rewritable types.