The Sony 1.5TB Write-Once Optical Disc Cartridgefrom Sony 1.5TB Write-Once Optical Disc Cartridgeworks with the Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) drive unit to offer an alternative to LTO or traditional forms of data tape for long-term archiving of valuable assets.

Offers an Alternative to LTO    Low Total Cost of Ownership    Ideal for Deep and Near-Online Archive    Reliable and Robust Storage    Offline Media Management    Fast Access to Data Files

Sony optical disc cartridges are designed and manufactured to extremely high specifications, offering very fast random access to all content and files. The innovative drive design provides for a "dual channel" capability. Being file format independent, the cartridge can store your assets in a data file format. The system is ideal for a wide range of deep archive requirements as well as near-online news and sports clips that require fast and random access to any files on the disc. Optical disc complements and co-exists in an established data tape archive strategy.

The Sony ODA system is ideal for deep archive to achieve long-term archive requirements, such as broadcast archives, where data tape does not provide the assurance or meet the need for write-once, long-term archive requirements. It provides second copy archive at a remote site and is ideal for business continuity/disaster recovery, post house and production backup and for video, film and stock footage archives or national archives. The system can also be used for news and sports clips that need to be near-online and as an online browse and proxy clip store.

Optical disc media is robust and reliable with a very long shelf life, offering a guaranteed 50+ years archive life. The optical disc cartridge is resilient to temperature extremes, humidity, dust and water.

There are no backwards compatibility issues and no second-generation media migration is necessary, as the optical disc cartridge will maintain backwards read compatibility with future optical disc drives.

Files are written as data and any kind of data format can be archived for increased flexibility. Furthermore, the system is UDF compatible.

Optical disc cartridges significantly reduce total cost of ownership over their extended archive life because of their minimal environmental storage demands.

Basic metadata can be stored on the Cartridge Memory to make it easier to locate data files.

Using an IT file data structure means data files can be accessed directly and randomly for flexibility and faster search capabilities. This function offers significant speed benefits over LTO tape for accessing short clips and allows the ODA system to work as near-line archive for production systems, as well as deep archive for the long term.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. What is the inner printable diameter?

A: Yes. These have a 22cm inner diameter.

Q: 2. Is the usb input 2.0 or 3.0?

A: It is USB 2.0

Q: 3. Is it free region?

A: No it is USA only. Region 1 ; A

Q: 4. I recently shipped one of these discs to a wrong address and when it came back the label was peeling off and the disc was no longer readable. Is this something that normally happens?

A: I haven't tried affixing traditional disc labels to these as I use direct inkjet printing through a CD Printer which is what they are designed for. I'm not entirely surprised the label was peeling as the surface of the CD is design for that direct printing operation, not for label adhesion. Don't know what your budget is but the direct printing method works GREAT for these and I've seen discs that were printed 2+ years ago with still a great image. We are using the Primera Bravo 4101 CD/DVD printer but there are other models from the same manufacturer that I bet would work great too. Can't speak for the quality of other printer manufacturers but I know there are others out there.

Q: 5. Can the firmware be updated to stay compatible with new blu-ray movies?

A: Hi Wayne W, we can only update the firmware once a new version has been released. About the compatibility with the new Blu-ray movies, are we getting an error message when trying to play it with this player? If so, you may refer to the article below to isolate the issue: a href= https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00132795 target= _blank https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00132795/aRegards,-Erin

Q: 6. I read that this is region free. Is that true?

A: Hi Jason B,This player supports Region Code A for BD and Region Code 1 for DVD.Thanks,Joffrey

Q: 7. does the bdp-s1700 need a transformer to work?

A: Does the player has 120v to 220v switch?

Q: 8. Does it have a counter that shows the minutes and seconds played on a video ?

A: No it does not.

Q: 9. Doe it have a Loop feature?

A: According to Sony, the S1700 will come with a Repeat feature.

Q: 10. Will it play PAL disc and convert to ntsc ?

A: This player will read pretty much anything you put in it and plays on all three systems. If you experience issues, you may have to go into the settings menu and set which region discs you are playing, and which system your TV is using.