Sony Music Entertainment plans to launch the first “hybrid CD” music releases in the beginning of September. Hybrid CD is a two-layer disc combining one...

Open source foundation Xiph.org, founders of the Ogg Vorbis codec, released the first beta of Neurosetta, the firmware upgrade that makes the Neuros the first...

Prices for DVD-Dual drives have continued to drop amid intensified competition as a number of manufacturers have recently launched the products and more are expected...

Mitsumi announced the new DW-7802TE dual DVD recorder. This drive can write to both DVD formats currently available in the market at up to 4x...

Hitachi Maxell announced a series of Blue Ray discs based on Blu-ray disc rewritable format Ver.1.0. The new discs offer an 23GB capacity which means...

Memorex announced a new internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive featuring the ability to read and record CDs at 48X, rewrite CDs at 24X, and read and play...

Sanyo Electric will start selling key components for DVD recorders to outside companies, by the end of the year. Sanyo will sell the loader, which...

The release of Orange Book part III Vol 3 v1.1 describing both 24x and 32x CD-RW media is slightly delayed. Distribution of the book is...

Investors are scrambling to buy Taiwan's loss-making computer compact disk makers amid signs of a turnaround in the US$2 billion industry after last year's deep...

Intersil introduced a new family of dual laser diode drivers (LDDs) optimized for low power, slim CD and DVD recordable disk drives used in laptop...