BenQ November consolidated revenues up 30.1% on-year
BenQ on December 6 announced its November consolidated revenues totaled NT$14.58 billion, up 30.1% on year. BenQ claims it shipped 45,000 projectors and over 750,000...
Plextor Shipping Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 With New 16x DVD+/-R/RW Drive
Roxio announced that Plextor has selected Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 Basic DVD Edition software to ship with their new PX-716 series 16X DVD+/-R/RW recorders...
New dual-layer ROM disc enables transition from DVD to HD DVD
Memory-Tech Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD...
8x slim-type DVD burners not expected to hit the mainstream until mid-2005
By the second half of next year, 8x slim-type DVD burners should replace slim-type Combo drives as the mainstream optical disc drive (ODD) used in...
Taiwan PUH industry not faring well
Optical pick-up head (PUH) manufacturer Acute Applied Technologies (Aatek) recently faced resignations from high-level executives at the company, highlighting the fact that things are far...
Volume production of Taiwan-developed FVD players to begin soon
Volume production of FVD (forward versatile disc) players, Taiwan's self-developed DVD standard, will begin early next year, according to the Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories (OES)...
TDK brings high-quality, high-speed DVD recording to the high street
TDK is the first recording media manufacturer to get its 16x DVD+R on the shelves and its 16x DVD-R is soon to follow.
Recording at...
28th Steering Committee Meeting (December 1, 2004)
HD DVD-ROM and RW File System approved.
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CPRM（Content Protection for Recordable Media）compatible DVD-R discs released
CPRM（Content Protection for Recordable Media）compatible DVD-R discs released form Hitachi Maxell, Taiyo Yuden, TDK, Mistubishi Kagaku Media on sale.
CPRM（Content Protection for Recordable Media）compatible DVD-R...
Optical Media Wars: DVD vs. SACD
Technologies developed after Compact Disc standards were established make much higher data densities possible on standard 12 cm discs.
New formats using smaller pit and...
