Marantz Japan announced that will ship a new CD-RW drive with the codename "MZ-R5220A". The drive supports 40X writing (Z-CLV), 12X re-writing, 48X reading, 16MB...

Panasonic Japan, announced today a new recorder with the codename "KXL-RW40AN". The drive supports 24x writing, 10x re-writing, 24x reading, 2MB Buffer and JustLink as...

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday it will investigate a Philips Electronics NV subsidiary's charges that importers are violating its patents on recordable and...

Atmel Corporation introduced today a fully functional DVD chipset with embedded microcontrollers. Allowing the system designer to take advantage of totally integrated functionality while supporting...

Yamaha Electronics Corporation announces that their much-anticipated internal CRW-F1 models are now shipping. Available in both E-IDE and SCSI interfaces, the internal CRW-F1 models come...

Intersil today announced a new dual output laser driver targeted for the rapidly emerging DVD/CD dual writer optical drive market. The Elantec(TM) Product Group's EL6119C...

Ultima Electronics announced a new CD-RW recorder that reaches 52X writing, 24X re-writing and 52X reading speeds. The drive uses CAV recording technology and JustLink...

After testing over 10 days the new YAMAHA CRW-F1E (IDE) CD-RW, we present the world's first review. We tried to cover most of the features...

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Mr. Magohiro Aramoto, the Corporate Senior Executive Vice President of Sharp Corporation was elected as Vice General Secretary of RWPPI.The 13th RWPPI Regular Meeting was...