HHB have been supplying professional audio
recording equipment for more than 25 years. During that time,
we’ve played an important role in establishing the
professional acceptance of many new digital formats including
DAT, CD-R, MO and MiniDisc, with a range of HHB studio and
location recorders.
Daily contact with broadcast, post, film
sound, location and music recording professionals provides
us with a unique insight into the very different requirements
they have of their recording formats. But one thing everybody
is agreed on is the need for dependable, high performance
recording media.
Not tied to a
single factory, we scour the world in search of the optimum
manufacturing partner for each individual format, facilities
capable of consistently producing HHB recording media products
to our own exacting specifications.
Experienced
HHB development engineers use the latest analysis equipment
including a Pulstec RDC-12X to batch-test HHB recording media
at regular intervals, ensuring that the demandingly low block
error rates we specify are consistently met. And we also
test HHB media in a wide variety of recorders and players
to ensure compatibility.
LIFE SPAN OF BURNED CDs
Firstly, HHB feel that magnetic tape is not best media for archiving as it has tendency to degrade for example the oxide comes off and print through can occur.
We are selling fairly large quantities of both CDR and DVD-R to the BBC in the UK and CBC in Canada along with many others around the world- many of which are being used in archiving. We quote secure archival life figures for our media in the HHB Professional Recording Media brochure which is available on our website - click on "brochures". The secure archival life of our CDR74, CDR80, CDR80IP, CDR80BulkIP, CDR80BulkThermal and CDRW80 greater than 100 years and CDR74Gold is greater than 200 years. Our DVD-R4.7GB-G, DVD-R4.7GB-GBulkIP and DVD-R4.7GbBulkThermal is greater than 50 years.
Obviously, these figures have been determined by using accelerated aging tests and results may vary depending on storage temperature, humidity and the types of recorders or drives that the media is recorded with.
I'm sure that broadcast customers and the Archiving Society of India will be very impressed with the quality of HHB media and you should supply them with samples for them to test along with pointing out the media brochure on our website |
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