CyberLink today announced support for the Advanced Video Codec High Definition Standard (AVCHD) across its range of software products. Following certification of AVCHD support in...

Hitachi Maxell will introduce its first 4x BD-R and 2x BD-RE DL media on the Japanese market later this month. The new BD-R and BD-RE...

The head of Sony, Howard Stringer, said Thursday that the Blu-ray disc format is in a "stalemate" with the competing HD DVD format. "It's a...

The BDC-S02 is the retail drive for Pioneer's BDC-202 which we recently reviewed, here on CDRinfo. You'll find a link to that review below. The main characteristics and specifications of the two drives is basically the same and are given on this page.

Verbatim announced today the world’s first Color-background LightScribe 16x DVD-R and DVD+R media. The new 4.7GB LightScribe DVDRs are available in shades of red, orange,...

Sonic Solutions and CinemaNow announced today a collaboration that will enable consumers to legally burn Internet downloaded entertainment onto protected recordable DVDs for playback on...

Sony managed to read and write on seven layers on holographic medium using the Micro-reflector method, further improving the company's previous achievements that...

CyberLink today launched CyberLink DVD Suite 6, a package of retail software for playing movies, editing videos, burning and backing up data, copying and authoring...

Daemon Tools and Astroburn released today "Astroburn", a disc burning and image writer application. Astroburn supports all kind of optical media (CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-Ray, HD...

The interactivity offered by the Blu-ray Discs is considered a major value-add for the format, but hardware makers and the Blu-ray Disc Association have to...