Taiyo Yuden filed a patent suit in the United States against two Taiwanese makers of DVD discs for violation of manufacturing technology for DVD-R discs...

With one-third of non-HDTV households to be interested in purchasing a new HDTV in the next six months, most people are thinking of buying an...

Sony NEC Optiarc Europe GmbH is launching its retail business in Europe with three new burners under the Sony brand. The premium version of the...

Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., and Chinontec Industries, Inc., today announced that they concluded an agreement for an operational and capital tie-up to strengthen both companies’ optical...

LG presented Blu-ray disc new rewritable (BD-RE) and Blu-ray disc recordable (BD-R), both under the LG brand. The discs have a storage capacity of 25...

Panasonic plans to bundle plasma TVs and Blu-Ray players at major U.S. retailers starting next week. Masayuki Kozuka, a general manager in charge of the...

MF Digital software partner, RipFactory, received the Best Business Entrepreneur Award for the flagship product RipStation, a CD ripping solution created through a partnership between...

NHK's Broadcasting Science Research Laboratory and Mitsubishi Electric have jointly developed a digital watermarking technology for moving pictures, that prevents illegal recordings in cinemas. Although...

Hollywood director Michael Bay has attacked Microsoft and the HD-DVD format, claiming that Microsoft's goal is to make both formats fail. Michael Bay, director of...

The Japan Recording Media Industries Association (JRIA) announced its forecast for global demand and production of recording media based on estimates for 2007. Recordable DVDs
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