Record companies look for answers as CD burning, file-swapping threaten industry
A new technology lets people copy music for free. Lawsuits are filed. Music sales dip. The viability of the recording industry is in doubt. The...
Crest National and Philips partner to bring SACD hybrid disc manufacturing to the USA
Royal Philips Electronics and Crest National, a leader in the film, video and optical media industries, today announced a partnership agreement to develop a Super...
Samsung electro-mechanics targets No. 1 position in optical pickups by 2007
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., the world's third-largest optical pickup manufacturer, announced plans on May 27 to invest 150 billion won into its optical pickup business...
BenQ to showcase 52x recorder in COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2002!
After the global identity launch program in 2001, BenQ will create another focus on enhancing its brand equity by participating in the annual Computex Taipei...
CD-R Prices predicted to rebound in second half...
Taiwan market research organization, the, Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association, predicts that a strain on the supply of CD-Rs in the fourth quarter will...
Sony announces "Postscribed ID" technology for CD-ROM discs
Sony Japan today announced a new technology called "Postscribed ID" for used with CD-ROMs. With the current CD-ROM technology, we cannot place additional record of...
Sanyo enters the DVD format with CRD-DV1
Sanyo Japan plans to release this summer a new super combo drive with the codename "CRD-DV1". The drive will support both CD and DVD formats,...
June CD-R contract price increases boost hopes for better margins
Taiwan’s optical disc manufacturers are rolling out long-anticipated price increases in CD-R discs. Per-unit contract prices of blank discs for June are up by roughly...
Midbar expands into Taiwanese market
Midbar announced today that the CDS processor, the encoder of the Cactus Data Shield copy control system, is now installed in manufacturing plants in Asia...
Macrovision post comments upon the felt-tip marker trick
Internet newsgroups and websites have recently been circulating news of users having circumvented Sony’s Key2Audio™ audio CD copy protection by scribbling around the rim of...
