The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) was an international
trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partic ...
formed to promote the use of recordable
optical data storage
IBM defines optical storage as "any storage method that uses a laser to store and retrieve data from optical media." '' Britannica'' notes that it "uses low-power laser beams to record and retrieve digital (binary) data." Compact disc (CD) an ...
technologies and products. It was responsible for the creation and maintenance of the
Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system specification (derived from ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167), which was notably adopted for
DVD-Video
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs. DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia in the 2000s until it was supplanted by the high-definition Blu- ...
. It was
incorporated in California in 1992 and dissolved in 2018.
In the autumn of 2007, OSTA spearheaded a campaign to encourage families and photographers to back up their digital photographs on compact discs.
External links
OSTA*
Understanding Recordable & Rewritable DVD*
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Running Optimum Power Control: Data Integrity in CD-Recording
Technology trade associations
International organizations based in the United States
Organizations based in California
Optical computer storage
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