The International Standards Organisation has approved ISO/IEC 10995 as a global standard for optical media archive life testing for recordable and rewritable DVDs.

 

February 6, 2008: The International Standards Organisation has approved ISO/IEC 10995 as a global standard for optical media archive life testing for recordable and rewritable DVDs.
According to a report from PMA International, the new international standard will ‘enable the optical storage industry to offer reliable archival-grade optical discs to help end-users select the media life expectancy best suited to their application requirements’.