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Thursday, October 18, 2018
Sony will release next month in Japan the world's first BD-R XL discs with a capacity of 128GB, just in time for the first 4K satellite broadcasts in the country.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Nero 2019 is here, offering data consolidation from any source, new photo cleanup, a new interactive live-help, new movie design templates and disc menus, new cloud access for playback and backup as well as usability improvements.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Roxio is introducing Roxio Toast 17 Titanium and Toast 17 Pro, the latest versions of the company's digital media and burning software for Mac.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Pioneer will release two BD/DVD/CD burners optimized for high-quality recordings on optical discs designed for long-term data preservation.
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
Despite the popularity of digital-only buyers, many people still rent or purchase movies or TV shows, and they like physical video discs.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Redbox is launching 4K Ultra HD rentals in six test markets. Rental pricing is just $2.50 per night.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
Taiwanese recordable optical disc maker Ritek Co. has become the sole non-Japanese maker of Panasonic's Archive Discs.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
CyberLink today released PowerDVD 18, the latest version of its flagship movie and media player for 4K high dynamic range (HDR), Ultra-HD Blu-ray, virtual reality (VR), 360o and online streaming content.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Chinese software maker Fengtao Software, the company which owns the DVDFab brand, officially announced its decryption solution to the 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays in its DVDFab 10, Passkey 9 and Player 5 products, respectively.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Fengtao Software, the Chinese company behind the DVDFab brand, introduced DVDFab UHD Creator, a consumer level 4K UHD authoring software.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Recording and archiving broadcast content is very popular in Japan and the Blu-ray Disc Association has started licensing the next-gen broadcast recordable Blu-ray format.
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Monday, December 11, 2017
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) is revising its joint patent licensing program beginning on and after January 1, 2018, including offering a new license agreement.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Pioneer has released a series of external Blu-ray disc burners in Japan, featuring a USB-C cable to connect to Android devices and easily transfer their audio CD libraries.
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Fengtao Software has released DVDFab UHD Copy, a new product which allows users to make home backup copies of any unprotected 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The new Roxio Creator NXT 6 and Roxio Creator NXT Pro 6 versions of Roxio's burning and creativity suite feature a diverse range of new video editing capabilities to elevate your next video project.
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
Launching today is the latest version of Nero 2018, the popular multimedia software for burning, copying, creating, editing, ripping, converting, playing and streaming media content.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Panasonic plans to increase disc capacity the the "Archival Disc" from 500GB to 1TB and start mass production sometime in the near future.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Corel's Roxio has introduced Toast 16 Titanium and Toast 16 Pro, the latest versions of its digital media and disc burning software for Mac.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
One-Blue, LLC has expanded its Blu-ray Disc products licensing program by officially launching its Ultra HD Blu-ray ("UHD") products licensing program, with effect July 1, 2017.
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Blast from the past. Optiarc is back, and Vinpower Digital has revised the Optiarc product line with the introduction of the Optiarc 5290S-PLUS optical disc burner, which offer the DVD+R DL Overburn feature toexpand the writing capacity from 8.5GB up to 8.7GB.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
CyberLink today released the biggest update in years to its software collection, CyberLink Media Suite 15.
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Friday, May 5, 2017
It appears that AACS 2.0 (Advanced Access Content System), the copy protection scheme used in commercial releases of 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray movies, has been cracked.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
CyberLink has released PowerDVD 17, the latest version of its flagship movie and media player for Windows PCs, designed to provide playback for all types of digital media, from physical movie discs and video files to photos and music.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Following strong Q1 results, Alliance Storage Technologies announced NETArchive version 2.0, a solution for Archiving, Managing, Optimizing and Protecting critical data.
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Licensing firm One-Blue, LLC is currently working to expand its Blu-ray Disc products license programs to include Ultra HD Blu-ray products, and is seeking for patent holders that could participate in its licensor scheme.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Pioneer is launching its first internal SATA BD burner to support Ultra HD Blu-ray playback in the U.S.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Following the recent release of the internal BDR-S11J SATA drives, Pioneer brings its Blu-ray technology expertise to a more compact, portable Ultra HD Blu-ray drive, the new BDR-XD06J-UHD.
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Monday, February 27, 2017
One-Blue, LLC, a company that holds licensing patents from licensors essential to Blu-ray Disc (BD) products, will reduce most of its royalty rates by 20% as of April 1, 2017.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
If you purchased a new computer with an internal optical disc drive, and you are a resident of specific U.S. states, you may be eligible for benefits from settlements reached in antitrust litigation currently pending in federal court.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Pioneer will release in Japan the first Ultra HD Blu-ray burners for PCs. Both the BDR-S11J-BK and BDR-S11J-X models will hit the shelves in the Japanese market in February.
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Consumers bought an impressive 1.8 million UHD Blu-ray discs in the United States in 2016, along with 300,000 UHD Blu-ray players, according to data cited by the Blu-ray Disc Association.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
The HDMI Forum today announced the upcoming release of
Version 2.1 of the HDMI Specification, which supports a range of Higher Video Resolutions and refresh rates including 8K60 and 4K120,Dynamic HDR and increased bandwidth with a new 48G
cable.
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Panasonic is showcasing at CES in Las Vegas the more affordable DMP-UB400 and DMP-UB300 UHD BD player, following the release of high-end UB900 and the UB700 models.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Researchers at London's Imperial College, working with Russian scientists and engineers at the Kazan Federal University, have described an electro-optical phenomenon that may offer the possibility to increase the density of information storage in optical media, by many orders of magnitude.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
CyberLink's flagship media player, PowerDVD, achieved certification from both the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) for the playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) its revising its patent licensing program to offer a reduced royalty rate for DVD Players and Recorders to licensees in "good standing."
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
CyberLink's Power2Go 11, the latest version of its burning and backup software, introduces new features including Blu-ray movie authoring, instant file resizing for transfer to disc or mobile, and automatic video quality enhancements when transferring to mobile.
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Monday, October 31, 2016
Primera Technology today announced its new Bravo 4200-Series Disc Printers and Disc Publishers.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Launching today is the latest version of Nero 2017, the polular multimedia software for burning, copying, creating, editing, ripping, converting, playing and streaming media content.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Roxio today introduced Roxio Creator NXT 5 and Roxio Creator NXT Pro 5, the latest releases of its burning and creativity suite.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
CyberLink today launched the latest versions of its Director Series video editing software featuring the PowerDirector 15, ColorDirector 5, AudioDirector 7 and ActionDirector 2.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Ritek has extended its optical disc production from the IT segment to bio-testing and has begun shipments, according to company chairman and CEO Gordon Yeh.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Roxio has recently introduced Roxio Toast 15 Titanium and Roxio Toast 15 Pro, the latest versions of its digital media and disc burning software for Mac, designed for home and business users.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
One-Red LLC, a company that offers various license programs for DVD patents, has reduced royalty rates for its joint DVD license programs.
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
Alliance Storage Technologies (ASTI) continue their legacy of optical data archiving with the release of the new NETArchive solution.
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With the alarming spread of 'Locky' earlier this year, ransomware once again moved into the public eye. Nero offers the Nero Burning ROM and SecurDisc technology in order to safeguard your files, and prevent access to data after a ransomware attack.
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Monday, June 20, 2016
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) consisting of nine developers of DVD technology and formats is revising its worldwide patent licensing program to offer a reduced royalty rate for DVD Read-Only Discs to licensees in good standing.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
The new Roxio Secure Burn Enterprise is a data burning and encryption solution designed to secure corporate and government accounts.
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Thursday, June 2, 2016
As many optical disc makers have already been forced out of the market, Taiwanese optical disc maker CMC Magnetics seems to benefit and sees strong orders from clients for 2016.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Verbatim introduces the new 100GB MDISC Blu-ray disc with an average lifetime of more than 1,000 years and high data storage capacity.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea (TSST-K), a subsidiary of Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (TSST), today filed for corporate rehabilitation proceedings with the Seoul Central District Court.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Sony is promoting use of optical discs for reliable long-term storage with the release of ther second generation of its Optical Disc Archive System, which adopts a 3.3TB optical disc cartridge developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Panasonic today unveiled its enhanced "freeze-ray" series Data Archiver, using 300GB Optical Discs, scheduled for release in the 2nd half of 2016.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Sony Optical Archive, a subsidiary of Sony, today unveiled the Everspan Library System, a scalable optical library system solution that delivers high-capacity archiving capabilities and could "threaten" tape leaders like Oracle and IBM.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Roxio Secure Burn Enterprise is a new data burning solution that enables government, corporate and institutional customers to monitor, control and protect confidential information saved to storage discs and devices.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
SlySoft, a "legendary" company for anyone involved in copying of digitally protected Blu-ray and DVD media, announced that it has shut down.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a small disc of glass that can hold 360TB and is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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Friday, February 5, 2016
The Japanese are still favoring CDs over other means of storing and enjoying music, and Japanese teenager are still swapping CDs.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Hitachi-LG Data Storage has recently has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to participate in Microsoft’s "Windows Rally" technology licensing program.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Panasonic has developed freeze-ray, an Optical Disc-Based Data Archive System in collaboration with Facebook.
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Monday, January 4, 2016
Warner Bros. and Intel's Digital Content Protection have sued LegendSky, the Chinese manufacturer of HDFury devices designed to strip HDCP copy protection from many sources, including streams.
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Warner Bros. recently announced that it has plans to release 35 4K Blu-ray movies by the end of 2016.
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
2015 has been quite an interesting year for copyright law around the world. Most of this year's copyright developments have been bad for users, but with one notable exception.
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Other World Computing (OWC) has made available the new OWC Mercury Pro, an aluminum-housed USB 3.0 optical drive for plug and play support of CD, DVD, M-DISC and/or Blu-ray disc reading and writing with Macs and PCs.
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
Asus keeps offering new optical storage devices, mainly for the Japanese market. The company's new DRW-24D5MT DVD burner is launching this month and comes with a power saving mode while idle.
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Monday, November 30, 2015
It looks like the High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP) version 2.2 used to protect the 4K video content provided by Netflix and Amazon has been cracked, a wave of 4K video torrents have appeared online.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Japanese Memory-Tech Co., Ltd. has established a mass production line for the next generation UHD Blu-ray Discs.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced the studio's first releases in the next-generation 4K Ultra HD Disc format, which will arrive in early 2016.
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science Graduate School of Engineering Science have developed a technology that could lead to a holographic storage disc with a capacity equivalent to 2TB - about 400 DVDs.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
CyberLink has joined a global focus group consisting of professional authoring facilities, technology companies and service providers working on the development of the Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD-BD) format.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
The European Commission has fined eight optical disc drive suppliers a total of €116 million for having coordinated their behaviour in relation to procurement tenders organised by two computer manufacturers, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
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Roxio today introduced Roxio Creator NXT 4 and Roxio Creator NTX Pro 4, the latest releases of their popular selling digital media suite. With the addition of Corel AfterShot 2, you get access to easy adjustments to make your photos look better, along with photo management and conversion.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc.(HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp (TSST) have been engaged in price-fixing case and may face fines as soon as Wednesday, Bloomberg reports.
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Sales of both DVD and Blu-Ray discs in the U.K. are expected to continue to decline in the third quarter of this year, mainly to the market continuing its shift to other forms of media.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Imation is the latest company to withdraw from the recordable media business. The 'TDK Life on Record' recordable media brand is already history and also sales of audio products and accessories sold under the Imation, Memorex and TDK Life on Record brands will stop by the end of December.
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Thursday, September 24, 2015
A security patch released by Microsoft recently removes support for copy protection programs Securom and Safedisc in Windows 8, 7, and Vista systems, potentially making some older games distributed on optical discs unplayble in the aformentioned OSes.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Revenues from streaming music services surpassed that of sales of physical media for the first time ever in 2015, according to data released by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Taiwanese optical disc maker CMC Magnetics has licenced technologies, patents, media IDs and trademarks previously owned by Taiyo Yuden, after the latter quit the development and manufacturing of CD-R, DVD-R and DVD+R blank optical discs.
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Monday, September 21, 2015
Nero has just released the Nero 2016, a software suite that
gives multimedia fans an advanced all-in-one solution for managing, streaming, playing, editing, ripping copying, burning and sharing files.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015
CyberLink today launched the latest versions of its Director series multimedia editing software featuring PowerDirector 14, AudioDirector 6, ColorDirector 4 and PhotoDirector 7.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Nero is not punishable for patent infringement. JVC Kenwood Corp. had filed suit against Nero and other software providers in the state of California in 2012, claiming that the software makers' copying and burning solutions were allowing patents to be infringed. After the federal circuit court rejected the complaint, JVC sought an appeal to no avail.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) will begin licensing the Ultra HD Blu-ray format starting Aug. 24. The new optical disc format will enable delivery of Ultra HD content to the market of Ultra HD households, which expected to grow to 95.6 million in 2019.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Lengthy loading times for websites or software applications, hanging updates, PC and laptop crashes... Nero TuneItUp ensures that even regular users can boot up their PCs up to 50% faster, optimize all system settings, and surf the web in more privacy.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
CyberLink has starting selling the CyberLink Media Suite 13, featuring three media editing and playback applications ? PowerDVD, PowerDirector, PhotoDirector, alongside utility software Power2Go and MediaEspresso for disc burning and media conversion.
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Britain's High Court ruled that copying CDs and DVDs you've bought to put onto your MP3 player, your computer or other devices is illegal, essentially overturning a law introduced last year that allowed you to transfer music into your home library.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Roxio today introduced two new additions to its Roxio Toast product family -- Roxio Toast 14 Titanium and Roxio Toast 14 Pro.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Redbox will soon expand its game catalog for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 through its rental kiosks across the US.
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Taiyo Yuden has officially announced plans to withdraw from the CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc manufacturing business, as the optical storage market continues to shrink.
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Sony has acquired California-based startup Optical Archive Inc. (OAI), a company that specializes in optical storage systems for the data center market, as the Japanes ecompany is trying to put 'cold storage' data on optical discs.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has completed the Ultra HD Blu-ray specification and released the new logo that will delineate Ultra HD Blu-ray products.
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Friday, May 8, 2015
European Union requlators may impose fines to makers of CD and DVD optical drives, as a result of a three-year-old price-fixing complaint.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015
Japanese Memory-Tech is promoting the "Ultimate High Quality CD" (UHQCD) technology for the manufacturing of audio CDs, pushing the limits of the optical disc format.
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Pioneer's has just announced the BDR-XS06JL, a slot-loading BDXl burner designed for both Macs and PCs.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Revenues from digital music services match those from physical format sales for the first time, according to IFPI’s Digital Music Report.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Nero is now offering a new Volume Licensing model for core Nero products, offering businesses an easier way to roll out the SecurDisc 3.0 data protection technique corporate-wide.
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Friday, April 10, 2015
Roxio has recently introduced Roxio Secure Burn Enterprise, a data burning solution that enables corporations and government customers to monitor, control and protect confidential information saved to storage discs and devices.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
A federal court in New York has ruled in favor of AACS LA and has issued an injunction granting the seizure of several domain names belonging to the Chinese-based DVD ripping company DVDFab.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Panasonic showcased the data archiver and data center battery backup unit that utilizes 18650-size cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells at the OCP U.S. Summit 2015, held on March 10 - 11, 2015, in San Jose, California.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
A new standard of recordable media designed to meet the archiving solutions of any industry are currently available by DIGISTOR.
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