Nine companies announce 27GB "Blu-ray Disc"
Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called...
Elantec releases laser diode driver for 32X CD-R and 20X CD-R/W drives
Elantec Semiconductor is now shipping a new high speed laser driver IC designed to meet the demand for faster CD read/write (R/W) speeds and smaller...
Plextor enters DVD format with a new combo recorder "PlexCombo 20/10/40-12A"
Plextor plans to ship a new combo DVD/CD-RW drive with the codename "PlexCombo 20/10/40-12A". This is the first Plextor drive that supports both CD and...
Benq introduces 32x and 40x recorders
Benq plans to introduce soon two new CD-RW drives with the codename "3210A" and "4012p". Both drives will be shown at the Cebit 2002 show,...
Adaptec releases new ASPI layer build
Adaptec released yesterday a new ASPI layer (v4.70) for using with Win 98, Me, NT, 2k and XP. The driver is now freely available (you...
Up to 1 tera-byte on a single optical disc!
The news is definitely exciting. Within 2002, OPTWARE Corporation seems that is about to develop a new optical disc technology, based on holographic recording...
Sony wins key PlayStation court case
Sony has won its court case against a British company that modifies PlayStation 2 games machines so they play imported discs and copies. The wording...
Yamaha announces new technology that enables "drawing" on CD-R!!!!
Yamaha announces the development of a new CD-R/RW laser pickup control technology that enables the 'drawing' of characters and pictures on CD-R discs. This new...
MARCAN introduces Primera CD/DVD combo duplicator
The new Primera Composer Series duplication systems, now available from leading CD/DVD solutions provider MARCAN Inc., handles all the latest media formats including CD-R, DVD-R,...
Midbar surpasses 10million protected CDs
Midbar Ltd., the developer of Cactus Data Shield (CDS) digital music copy control technology, announced today that more than 10 million Cactus Data Shield (CDS)...
