Green DVD boasts "playability" equal to competitors
By Wendy Wilson -- Video Business, 2/11/2009
Feb. 11 | EcoDisc, a green alternative to the traditional DVD, offers suppliers a disc with the same capacity for content but produced with less than half of the raw material of its predecessor, according to the parent company.Introduced in Europe in 2007, the disc also offers the added environmental benefit of being manufactured on CD equipment. This difference in the production equipment, combined with the use of fewer raw materials (oil-based polycarbonate) in its creation, makes for a total reduction in carbon emissions of more than 50%.
In an independent study commissioned by EcoDisc Technology, the disc's playability was compared to that of two other discs available on the U.S. market. EcoDisc was found to have the same "playabilty" as a similar disc produced by Technicolor.
Based in Switzerland, EcoDisc's DVDs have been largely used by accounts in Europe. More than 25 million discs have been distributed to date by clients including Future Media, the United Kingdom's largest magazine publisher.
For more information about EcoDisc visit the company online.
