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Friday, November 20, 2009
Panasonic has developed the "Advanced Disc for Archive" (ADA) optical disc with a cassette-type shell case aimed at archiving data of pictures in the medical field.
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Blu-ray Disc (BD) sales will not be sufficient this year to compensate for the widely reported downward trend in DVD sales, although industry analysts of Screen Digest expect global consumer spending on packaged video software to stabilise again in 2010.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Plextor introduced its latest entry into the Blu-ray market with the new PX-B940SA internal BD writer.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
CyberLink today announced that Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc., (HLDS) will bundle CyberLink DVD Suite with its latest DVD burners.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
While recordable DVDs are unreliable and unpredictable, often failing in as few as two years, a new 1,000 year DVD made of high tech, diamond-hard stone promises to preserve irreplaceable digital files for the ages.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Primera Technology today announced its BravoPro Xi-Series Disc Publishers (DP-PRO Xi-Series in Europe, Scandinavia and Middle East).
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On the ocassion of the release of Windows 7, Samsung is offering a Nero 9 bundle for Windows 7 upgrade for free to the existing owners of Samsung/TSST drives bnundled with Nero 8.
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Pioneer and Sharp have completed all the necessary procedures and launched their optical disk joint venture today.
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Lite-On today announced the launch of a a new external DVD writer. With the introduction of the eHAU324 Lite-On offers the 24x DVD writing speeds now also on an external DVD writer.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
VSO Software today released its latest version of the video converter and burning software, ConvertXtoDVD 4.
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The Blu-Con 2.0 was held on Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton, California. The conference is dedicated to the topic of Blu-ray and its potential future within the movie, hardware, software, gaming and retail industries.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Nero announced today that Nero 9 Lite, a free entry point to the Nero 9 "Reloaded" suite, offering disc copying and data disc burning functionality, is now available to consumers as a download from www.nero.com.
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Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) today announced the SH-S243N 24x DVD burner and the SH-B083A/L Blu-ray disc combo drives, both compatible with the new Windows 7 operating system.
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Pioneer announced today the completion of assessments on antitrust laws overseas for the optical disk joint venture with Sharp
Corporation.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Other World Computing has releaed Mercury Pro 12X Blu-Ray burner, an external Blu-Ray writer for PCs and Macs that feature four connectivity options, the USB 2.0, both FireWire 400 and 800, plus the eSATA.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Moser Baer India Ltd has entered into an agreement with Corona Marketing Group for promoting its OEM and DataRight-branded Optical storage media products in North America.
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Roxio today announced the availability of over 30 applications for Windows 7 users and PC OEMs who wish to complement and expand the digital media functionality of Windows 7.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission yesterday announced that it has imposed monetary penalties on Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden for violating fair trade rules and monopolizing the recordable media market.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Moser Baer, the world?s second largest manufacturer of Optical Storage media, has launched Print Max, a BDR White Inkjet Printable discs designed to work with Primera Technology's range of products.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nero announced today that Nero users can enjoy their favorite Nero products on the Windows 7 operating system.
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Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony said Tuesday that their optical disk drive operations in the U.S. received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation into potential antitrust violations.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The remarkable eyes of a marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, according to a new study from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Roxio has today launched Roxio Easy LP to MP3 to help individuals preserve their analogue music collections by converting them to MP3 files, CDs or onto a portable player.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Consumer spending for the third quarter of 2009 in DVD, Blu-ray Disc and digital distribution was down by 3.2 percent compared to the same period last year, although Blu-ray Disc software sales continue to show a growth with overall sales up 83 percent for the year.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Plextor unveils its latest combo DVD re-writer that also plays Blu-ray movies, the Plextor PX-B320SA.
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Roxio today released Roxio Popcorn 4, a Mac software application that allows consumers to transfer personal video entertainment from capture devices and DVDs.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Nero today announced the release of Nero 9 "Reloaded", the latest update to one of the world's best-selling integrated digital media software solutions.
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Plextor today launched the PX-B940SA, a Blu-ray disc burner which writes at 12-speed (BD-R DL/SL), an important step up when burning complete Blu-ray discs which can hold anything up to 50GB of data.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Samsung has launched an internal Blu-ray disc COMBO, the SH-B083, which marks the company's first attempt to enter the market of Blu-ray drives for PCs.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The SINGULUS MASTERING's CrystalLine mastering system installed at U-TECH Media Corporation has passed its Final Acceptance Test, the companies annoucned today.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Pioneer today announced its new BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc Computer Writer, the industry?s first and fastest model to feature up to 12x write speed for single and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) media.
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TDK developed a new optical disc with a capacity of 320GB, using 10 recording layers.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Pioneer and Sharp announced today that they have decided to change the launch date of their optical disk joint venture, due to ongoing assessments to determine whether the joint venture conforms to antitrust laws overseas.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sony Optiarc's new 24x DRX-S70U-W external DVD burner cuts a good figure in any environment, from lobby and caf? to home office.
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BD-Live software developer RCDb and Videon Central announced today a partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of networked applications on Internet connected Blu-ray Disc (BD) players.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Today LaCie announced the latest versions of its Portable DVD±RW Drive, design by Sam Hecht.
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The China High-Definition DVD Industry Association (CHDA) on Thursday announced its development plans for the China Blue High-Definition (CBHD) disc format at a conference in Guangzhou.
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Nero announced today the release of Nero Linux 4, the latest version of the company's burning application for the Linux operating system.
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Pioneer today introduced the BDR-S05J-BK, a new Blu-ray disc burner capable of recording pon BD-R discs at 12x.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Plextor Europe brings the latest internal SATA DVD writer - the 24x PX-880SA, the fastest drive in the the company's optical range.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Corel Corp. today announced the newest version of the popular DVD playback software - Corel WinDVD Pro 2010.
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With global supplies of Blu-ray optical pickup units running short worldwide, seven manufacturers of optical disc drives from Taiwan and Japan yesterday announced their plan to establish new lines for the production of Blu-ray optical pickup units in the Central Taiwan Science Park.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Sharp developed a blue-violet semiconductor laser powerful enough to burn on triple- and quadruple-layer Blu-ray discs.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sonic Solutions today announced a new lineup for its professional Blu-ray Disc (BD) authoring, compression, and quality assurance products.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
Sonic Solutions today released the Sonic BD PowerStation, a new Blu-ray Disc (BD) production suite for professional videographers that's built on Sonic's CineVision HD video encoding and Scenarist authoring products.
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co,, Ltd. (MKM) announced today the acquisition of Freecom B.V., a privately held data storage and multimedia solutions provider established in Germany.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Pulstec has introduced two new "Blu-ray Stamper Evaluation Systems" part of company's MASTER electrical signal series of testers.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Despite a rapid rise in the sales of consumer Blu-ray players, a fall in their prices and an increase in the number of high-definition movie titles, Blu-ray Drives (BDs) in PC systems have been left singing the blues, according to iSuppli Corp.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Roxio today launched Roxio Creator 2010, an upgrade focused on streamlining and accelerating the process of capturing, editing and enjoying personal video, including high-definition content.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
In 2009, Blu-ray title prices have declined rapidly and the pricing gap is narrowing, according to Futuresource Consulting?s price tracking service. The service shows that in February the average Blu-ray price for new release movies in the UK was £27.29. By the beginning of August this had dropped to £16.74 ? a decline of 40%.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
HP?s latest BD Combo drive reads Blu-ray discs, plus high speed DVD/ CD recording functions, and it?s LightScribe Version 1.2- ready for high-contrast LightScribe direct disc labeling.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Lite-On Europe introduced a new series of portable external slim DVD writers: the eTAU108.
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Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. will officially introduce its global "Verbatim" brand into the Japanese market from September of this year.
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Japanese Bufallo today announced the industry's first 10x BD-R burner, which will be available in the beginning of next month in both internal and external versions.
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Nero's products have earned the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo from Microsoft Corp.
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Toshiba has applied for membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) last week and plans to introduce products that support the Blu-ray format.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Toshiba announced that the company has applied for membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and plans to introduce products that support the Blu-ray format.
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Imation announced an industry first: the generation of multi-terabyte native-capacity tape using advanced metal particulate (MP) media and employing the company?s proprietary TeraAngstrom technology.
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Aleratec introduced today a new Blu-ray disc duplicator for the "Prosumer" market.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Hitachi, Mitsubishi and other organizations plan to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc that can store 25 times more data than a Blu-ray Disc, with the aim of putting the technology into practical use in 2012, industry sources said Monday.
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Monday, August 03, 2009
StarForce has successfully passed its product line testing procedure and received ?Compatible with Windows 7 logo.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Nero today announced that Nero MediaHome Essentials software will be bundled with the LG BD390 Network Blu-ray Disc Player.
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Alliance Storage Technologies re-established manufacturing, engineering, software development, distribution and world-wide support and maintenance services for Plasmon UDO-based Archive Appliance and G-Series library solutions.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Pioneer today announced a new slim portable DVD/CD writer, the DVR-XD09, that features the industry?s most compact design to date.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
CyberLink announced today that its complete range of multimedia solutions passed Windows 7 logo testing, qualifying them for the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo program.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
On the 13th of July 2009 Philips ended its legal disputes with regard to recordable and rewritable optical discs with Imation and Moser Baer in two separate settlements.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Toshiba will eventually enter the Blu-ray DVD market, more than a year after it gave up on its own next-generation format (HD DVD) that failed to gain industry support, a report said.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Consumer spending for the first half of 2009 in the home entertainment window for pre-recorded entertainment, which includes DVD, Blu-ray Disc and digital distribution, was $9.73 billion, off by 3.9 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a report from the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG).
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Plextor LLC today announced the PX-880SA internal SATA and PX-880U external drives. With writing speeds up to 24X and a newly-designed chassis, the drives are the fastest-writing in the Plextor lineup and also include a new noise-reduction design.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Imation, maker of Memorex brand DVDs and videotapes, said it agreed to pay Royal Philips Electronics NV $53 million over three years to end litigation over optical-storage media.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
By the end of 2009, Acer Group will bundle Nero 9 Essentials, an OEM version of the Nero 9 integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite, on all desktop systems sold globally, including the Acer, Gateway, Packard Bell and eMachines brands.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Primera Technology announced today its PTBurn Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for Mac.
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HamaTech Advanced Process Equipment, a SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES company, today announced its most advanced photomask processing system, the MaskTrack Pro.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
LG brings in Euroipe the company's latest 8x BD burner (LG BH08LS) as well as the LG CH08LS, drive that combines the advantages of a BD player and DVD burner.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Audiodev has finalized its reconstruction plan and is back in business, the company announced today.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
DVD Format/logo Licensing Corporation (DVD FLLC), the company responsible for the licensing and logos related to the DVD products, has updated licensing fees for the DVD Book.
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Sony today debuted its next-generation multi-function DVDirect DVD recorder, which can transfer both high-definition and standard-definition home videos and digital photos to DVD discs without using a computer.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
New figures on the home entertainment market released by the British Video Association using data from the Official Charts Company reveal that Blu-ray Disc sales continue to rise despite the recession biting the sector as a whole in the first half of the year.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Asus is now providing a full range of DVD-RW and Blu-ray Combo drives packed with energy saving features.
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Lite-On announced the introduction of a new series external slim DVD-ROM drives, the eTDU108.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Pioneer Corporation and Sharp Corporation today signed a formal
contract for the establishment of an optical disk joint venture.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Toshiba may finally support the 'rival' Blu-ray disc format as the Japanese company has been posting losses in the latest quarters.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Test equipment company AudioDev announced on Thusday that its board had filed for bankruptcy.
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For a limited time only, all retail and online sales of Nero 9 will include a free downloadable version of AudialsOne Special Edition providing unlimited MP3 and video downloads.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A four-fold sales increase of Blu-ray movies as well as the double digit disc sales increases in China, Russia and India helped mitigate the ongoing global DVD sales slump in 2008, according to a new report from Screen Digest.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The final version of the Advanced Access Content System license agreement for the DRM system used on Blu-ray Discs inlcude four basic features of AACS: Managed Copy, Digital Only Token Audio Watermark and analog susnset.
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Lite-On Europe announced an updated version of their BD-ROM drive, the new iHOS104.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Primera announced today that it has partnered with Imagine Products, Inc. to offer fully-integrated support for Imagine's ShotPut Pro software.
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Pioneer's new slim, portable DVD and CD writer, the DVR-XD08 is now available across Europe.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions Corporation showcases its smart optical disc drives and innovative features at Computex 2009.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
CyberLink will be showcasing an array of new technologies and leading multimedia solutions at Computex 2009 in the Grand Hyatt Taipei, Suite 1025 and 1048, June 2-6.
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Panasonic announced the availability and pricing for the world?s first portable Blu-ray player -the Panasonic DMP-B15
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Samsung reported record sales for its slim external WriteMaster DVD writers amid a global economic recession.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG today released the Ashampoo Burning Studio 9, the latest and more advanced version of the company's disc burning suite.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The MEDIA-TECH Association announced the formation of a new executive committee within the Association, which will be comprised of the main independent replicators with a European presence.
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Roxio today announced the immediate availability of
Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
An internal Qflix-enabled DVD burner is now available as an option on select Dell consumer desktops, making it easy to download and record DVD movies.
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Erik Deppe, the man behind the development of the popular DVD Speed and PlexTools software, developed the 'Opri Drive Control' test and benchmark utility for optical drives, which can be used to verify the performance, quality and reliability of the burn and read functions of optical drives and discs.
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