Here is the translation from the original press release (German): "...like so much in our time also CD under license are manufactured. Even if one...

Philips Electronics NV plans to lay off a total of 441 employees from its production facilities in Hasselt, Belgium and scale back its production of...

Yamaha announced the CRW3200 family of optical recorders, which will make their debut with an internal IDE model (CRW3200EZ) in October 2001, will be the...

HP is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable DVD drives. The Palo Alto,...

Toshiba Japan announced today a new DVD-ROM model with the codename "SD-M1612". The new DVD-ROM model supports ALL DVD recording formats (DVD-R/RW/RAM) exept DVD+RW :-)...

Hitachi and Asahi Optical have jointly developed an optical-head technology that they say will enable a 100-Gbyte optical-disk system. Hitachi and Asahi use a single...

TEAC's CD-W524E with firmware v1.0A supports the BURN-Proof feature as the BURN-Proof center certificates. Its writing speeds are: 4x, 8x, 12x, 16x (CLV), 24x (Z-CLV)...

Iomega today announced it has entered into the CD recording software business. In introducing the new package called Iomega HotBurn, company officials said the software...

Police seizures of counterfeit recordable compact discs (CD-Rs) surpassed 1.2 million in the U.S. during the first half of 2001, skyrocketing 133% from the same...

IFPI has broken new ground in the fight against piracy in South East Asia by signing a 'good business practices' anti-piracy agreement with PT Dynamitra...