Chip sets seen lowering DVD recorder costs
Cheaper DVD recorders may not be under the tree this Christmas, but Taiwan chip makers hope to make the consumer machines the stocking stuffer of...
Sony loses ModChip case in Australia!
Owners of PlayStation consoles who modify their machines to play games bought overseas have had a win in the Federal Court. Sony Computer Entertainment has...
Columbia TriStar Renews Contract to Use Macrovision's DVD Copy Protection
Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) announced today that Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., has signed a multi-year contract renewal to utilize...
CD-ROM drives still going strong
CD-ROM drives will account for 42% of the estimated 188 million worldwide shipments of computer drives this year, followed by 30% for CD-RW drives and...
Seven major categories of IT gear to post double-digit growth in 2002
Taiwan’s CD-RW drive unit shipments will more than triple and six other major categories of IT products will post double-digit unit growth this year, the...
Plextor PX-208T review
Today we post a new hardware review of Plextor PX-208T. The drive is a portable combo and supports 8x8x24 CD-RW speeds among with 8X DVD...
Oak Technology reports fourth-quarter revenues of $34.9 Million
Oak Technology, a leading provider of embedded software and semiconductor solutions for the optical storage and digital imaging markets, today announced that for the fourth...
U-Tech Media becomes first plant in Taiwan awarded anti-piracy certification
U-Tech Media Corp. has completed the internationally approved Anti-Piracy Compliance Program developed by the International Recording Media Association (IRMA). The IRMA Anti-Piracy Compliance Program (APCP)...
Philips announces DVD ReWritable/Recordable licensing programs
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. has started patent licensing programs for DVD ReWritable/Recordable systems. The licensing program covering essential patents for DVD+RW and DVD+R Discs, Recorders and...
ARM and MediaTek partner to bring RISC technology to Taiwan
ARM, the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and MediaTek Inc., the world's leading supplier of ICs and chipsets to the optical...
