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Verbatim's parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical, has announced that they will be releasing their new LTH Type BD-R media to the Japanese market on February 26th. These new discs are rated at 2x and use an organic recording layer which allows them to be manufactured on existing CD-R or DVD-R production lines with only minor adjustments. Here's part of their press release, translated from Japanese:

Mitsubishi chemical media Ltd. (The headquarters: the Tokyo Minato Ward and president: Otsuka heavy morality) will put write-once type Blu-ray Disc and five double-speed BD-R LTH TYPE 25GB for recording that uses the organic dye for the recording layer on the market by packing on February 26.

This corporation advanced the standardization propulsion activity of organic pigment system BD-R, but previous spring, the recording type Low to High which corresponds to organic pigment system BD-R (LTH) is adopted for Blu-ray Disc Recordable Format Ver.1.2. As for BD-R which used the organic pigment in the record membrane, reflectance ratio of the disk after the recording, from low reflectance ratio changes to high reflectance ratio, (Low to High: LTH) From thing, LTH TYPE it is inscribed.

Mitsubishi's LTH Type BD-R media is expected to cost about 4,800 Yen ($45US) for a pack of five. Full details can be found here.