The reflectivity difference between the amorphous mark state and the crystalline state of the Phase-change optical disk produces playback signal as those of pit marks of CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disks. Applying thin disk substrate (0.6mm), Land/Groove recording and PWM recording technology increases the density to 2.6Gbit/in^2. The wavelength dependency of the optical constant of the Phase-change material films (GeTe-Sb_2Te_3-Sb) shows large response characteristics to blue laser wave length (λ=430nm). More than 10 times extension of the areal recording density is expected on the Phase-change optical disk as 7Gbit/in^2 to 10Gbit/in^2) by using blue laser in the future.
We have developed a video disk recorder system using a magnetically induced super resolution (MSR) magneto-optical (MO) disk and archived a user data capacity of 4.1 Gbytes per disk by using land/groove recording technology. The system can record about 125 minutes of moving picture encoded by MPEG2 method.
Optical Video Disk Recorder that can record a compressed video signal and 2ch non-compressed audio signals into optical disk for 40 miniutes has been developed. The 12cm diameter PCR disk has 10.4GB storage capacity for both sides. The new disk format "SCALLER" that has dual playback mode CLV and CAV has been reported. High density recording and multiple-port playback are realized by the circuit that is designed on the SCALLER format.
A component digital video codec which can record a compressed video signal and 2-ch non-compressed audio signals for 40 minutes into optical disk has been developed. The disk has 12cm diameter and 10.4GB storage capacity for both sides. The codec uses adaptive DCT and variable length coder, and compresses video signal at 216Mbps to 25Mbps by a rate control unit. It has simple circuit complexity, and can control encoded bit amounts accurately using DCT activities and VLC buffer statistics.