Maxell is now shipping a new Professional Disc optical media for the Sony XDCAM HD tapeless video systems. The media employs a high precision, polycarbonate plastic cartridge to protect it against all elements, including dust, scratches and fingerprints.

Also re-writable, Professional Disc media offers 23.3 GB of storage capacity and provides up to 122 minutes of record/playback time in the HD format (MPEG HD LP mode), more than 65 minutes in the HD format (MPEG HD HQ mode), approximately 45 minutes at 50 Mbps in the SD format (MPEG IMX), and up to 85 minutes in the SD format (DVCAM). It also delivers a transfer rate of 72 Mbps with one optical head and 144 Mbps with two optical heads. $31.58 per disc.