Several executive members of the DVD+RW Alliance, a voluntary association of industry-leading personal computer manufacturers, optical storage and consumer electronics manufacturers, announced new DVD+RW products...

Philips’ new JackRabbit external drive features 24x CD-R recording and comes USB 2.0 ready. In addition, the drive offers backward compatibility to USB 1.1 systems...

Pioneer Electronics announced the DVR-A04, Pioneer's fourth generation combination DVD/CD recordable/re-recordable drive. The DVR-A04, supports multiple recording formats including DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW as...

"...Pioneer's DVD recorder (DVR-7000) and drive (DVR-A03) are based on the DVD-R - (record once) and DVD-RW - (re-recordable) disc formats. These global standards are...

Just before CeBIT 2002 closes, we post our second series of articles about optical storage devices. Today we will see what new from: LG, Brainwave(Sanyo),...

flexstorm GmbH will present at this year’s CeBIT a completely new storage media product: the world’s first physically flexible CD. The flexCD is a flexible,...

Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will merge key segments of their semiconductor businesses, part of a broader move by Japanese technology companies to combine...

Elantec Semiconductor announced two new laser driver products targeted for the rapid emerging DVD/CD dual writer optical drive market. The EL6285C and EL6219C both provide...

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. announced that it developed new blue-violet semiconductor laser diodes with improved light-emission characteristics. According to Sanyo, the laser can realize stable...

Sony Electronics today introduced its next generation of DVD+RW drives, which now also support write-once recording on DVD+R discs. Both the DRU-120A ATAPI internal model...