# Industry Agrees On Next Gen Unified DVD Standard

From a [press release](http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html) on [matsushita.co.jp](http://www.matsushita.co.jp):   
  
Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording, rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser. The companies that established the basic specifications for the Blu-ray Disc are: Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson Multimedia.

*Originally posted on Tuesday, 2002-02-19 at 16:25:18.*