LG pleasantly surprised the attendants of the 2007 International CES trade show in Las Vegas last January with the introduction of the first combo drive that supports both the Blu-Ray and the HD DVD formats.

HP's dvd1035i is one of the relatively recent 20X Multiformat drives (official release date: April of 2007). The Super-multi DVD burner is backed by Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS), which currently sells optical disc drives under the brand names Lite-On and HP.

AOpen Europe introduced a new half-height optical disc drive, the DSW2012P. The DVD/CD drive reads and writes DVD±R/RW, DVD±R DL, DVD-RAM and CD-R/RW formats at...

DaTARIUS Optical Products (DOP), part of the DaTARIUS Group, has announced that it has reached a partnership agreement with R&D Hi-Tech Corp of Taiwan for...

Fujifilm today announced the availability of recordable media for the Labelflash enabled laser-labeling DVD drives. This technology is being introduced in the U.S. market with...

The North American HD DVD Promotional Group today announced HD DVD is significantly ahead in the dedicated consumer electronics player market with 60% of all...

Primera announced lower pricing on its Bravo SE Disc Publisher, Bravo SE Blu Disc Publisher and Bravo SE AutoPrinter until June 30, 2007. Pricing is...

Asus showcased the BC-1205PT Blu-ray Disc drive and HR-0205T HD DVD drive for a desktop PCs at Compuitex, Taipei. Targeting the high-end users PC users,...

Panasonic's Hollywood Laboratory (PHL) is expanding its California-based research and development facility and its staff to grow with the Blu-ray Disc format. Residing near NBC...

Hitachi LG Data Storage (HLDS) recently released a new Super Multi DVD Rewriter, capable of writing DVD recordable discs at 20x and supporting the RAM 2 specifications (Ver 2.1) for 12x writing on DVD-RAM media.