Exclusive: Philips are to introduce an SACD and DVD-Audio solution to market in the form of the SD 5.2, an integrated transport and decoder that...

Chinese optical drive makers have delayed the release of EVD (enhanced versatile disc) players, China’s self-developed DVD format, for one month, according to the Chinese...

With 2003 about to fade into history, MMIS has taken a quick look back at this year’s happenings in the recordable media industry, and offers...

Several major Japanese chipmakers have decided to have staff give up their New Year holidays to meet a demand surge stemming from spirited sales of...

The external LDW-851SX DVD Dual Drive is currently available in the market. The USB 2.0 drive is able to write DVD+R media at 8x, rewrite...

Intel and Microsoft will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before...

Feng Sheng Technology and Homenema Disk, two Taiwanese manufacturers of pre-recorded optical discs, will expand their monthly production capacities to 15 million discs and 9.8...

Philips Electronics introduced the SAA7154 system chip solution - a video decoder, scaler and de-interlacer with picture improvements and memory-less enhanced dependent de-interlacing (EDDI) for...

Philips Semiconductors, a long-time advocate of the DVD+RW standard, expects to start providing DVD recorder-use chipsets supporting the DVD-Dual format in early 2004 at the...

Eastern Asia Technology (Eastech), a Taiwanese-invested company listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), expects to ship between 400,000 and 500,000 DVD recorders in 2004, up...