Formosa Plastics to invest in optical pickup head
Taiwan's petrochemical and plastics giant, Formosa Plastics Group, has decided to diversify into the optoelectronics industry field. The group is reported now to be conducting...
DVD replaces VCR market fast!
The DVD market has grown rapidly recently, as demand for VCRs looks like it is becoming obsolete. According to market sources on Sept. 12, sales...
HexaLock announces the release of v2.1 of their CD-ROM copy protection suite
Hexalock, Ltd., a leader in CD-ROM copy protection technology and digital rights management solutions announced today the release of version 2.1 of its CD-ROM Copy...
Oak Technology promotes John Squire to senior vice president and general manager of optical storage group
Oak Technology announced today that John Squire has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Oak's Optical Storage Group (OSG), reporting to...
MedioStream releases new version of neoDVD suite
MedioStream today announced the release of neoDVDstandard 4.0 and neoDVDplus 4.0. The new versions of MedioStream's popular neoDVD suite of software will feature the NEO...
Pioneer warns about compatibility problems with new 4X DVD-R and 2X DVD-RW discs!
Pioneer Corporation today announced that its DVD Recorder (DVR-7000) and DVD-R/RW writers (DVR-A03-J, DVR-A04-J, DVR-S303) may malfunction, if used with new high-speed DVD-R/RW discs (with...
CD players glued shut to stop piracy
A US record company has issued reviewers with portable CD players that are glued shut to prevent two new albums from being pirated online before...
Philips signs memorandum of understanding with China audio industry association!
After a long period of intense negotiations, agreement has been reached about the licensing conditions for Chinese DVD manufacturers for sale of DVD players both...
Ineos Phenol plant fire to have limited effect on Taiwan CD-R disc makers
A recent explosion at a US plant of Ineos Phenol, a unit of British chemical supplier Ineos Group, will have limited impact on the raw...
Philips extends watermarking technology with direct embedding in MPEG-2
Philips announced today the extension of their watermarking technology with a new technique that enables a watermark to be directly embedded in an MPEG-2 transport...
