Hewlett-Packard reduced the initial licensing fee to use its LightScribe technology to US$250,000-300,000 in order to encourage leading manufacturers of optical disc drives in Taiwan...

In a seminar held last week in Japan, the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) explained the content protection technology used in the BD-ROM format, based on...

Cult e-tailer dshirt.co.uk in conjunction with Datawrite is throwing down the gauntlet to the cream of the creative industries to devise stylish and funky t-shirt...

CyberLink's BD Solution is being shipped with Sony's first BD-R/RE burner, the BWU-100A drive. Optimized to keep 1080i HD video in native high-definition format from...

The DVD+RW Alliance, in light of Taiwan's importance in the production of optical discs and drives, will set up a Taiwan branch of its DVD+RW...

Nero announced that the Nero ShowTime application of its Nero 7 digital media software suite received Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) certification. The Microsoft Windows...

Patent player MPEG LA announced that the first meeting of essential Blu-ray disc patent owners, consisting of 17 companies, was held in Los Angeles earlier...

ComicBase, the leading comic book collection management software, is the first commercial PC product available in the new Blu-ray format. The program, which allows collectors...

Sony Electronics expanded its DVDirect DVD recorder family with two new models ? the video- and digital photo-capable VRD-MC3 and the video-only VRD-VC30 recorders. Both...

Just a few weeks after the U.S availability of Samsung's first Blu-Ray player, early reviews indicate that the noise-reduction chip used in the player does...