This is the last o­ne, I promise. TDK has announced they're changing the names of all their existing optical disc hard-coating technologies to simply "DURABIS." Through a combination of "durability" and "shield" (a very lopsided combination, I might add), TDK managed to reach "DURABIS."

The company already applies the coating to all of their DVD and Blu-Ray discs, so don't expect anything fancy. But the coating looks to be good stuff -- going by the graph they have in their press release, the discs retained jitter percentages of 7% even under a 300-pass steel wool abrasion test. Yikes. Click the DURABIS logo below for the full English press release.

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