Mitsubishi Electric joins Blu-ray Disc founders
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the existing nine Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF)* today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has become a new member company of BDF. Mitsubishi...
Sony unit to test delivery of copyrighted video content
Sony Communication Network Corp, or SCN, will begin testing a system on may 29 that transmits video content online in a way that protects copyrights...
California supreme court to hear DVD case
The California Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for May 29, 2003, on a key legal challenge to the publication of information regarding the decryption...
Primera announces Software Developer's Kit (SDK) and network software for its BravoT disc publisher
Primera Technology announced its new PTBurn Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for its best-selling Bravo Disc Publisher. Also announced is a new low-cost network software package...
Major brand hard drive vendors recall defective products produced in China
Three major brand hard drive vendors – Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB...
Philips says consumer gadgets to lift chip sales
Philips sees the stagnant market for its semiconductors recovering to 12 percent growth, driven in part by dvd recorders which will become home entertainment hubs,...
New half-height slim-type DVD+RW drives by Quanta Storage
Quanta Storage, the largest slim-type optical storage drive maker in Taiwan, expects to launch half-height, desktop-use DVD+RW drives in June and sample slim-type, notebook-use DVD+RW...
Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell develop multilayer optical disc for Terabyte recording
Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell announced that they have jointly developed a new basic technology for multilayer optical discs.The technology allows terabyte-level large-capacity storage in a...
Portable slimtype DVD+R/RW recorder by Logitec
Logitec announced a new slim type DVD+R/RW recorder. The LDR-PR22U2 drive supports USB 2.0/1.1 interfaces and 2.4x DVD+R/RW writing. Availability is expected by the last...
Pioneer stops using VIA DVD-ROM chip sets
Japan-based Pioneer recently stopped ordering DVD-ROM chip sets from VIA Optical Solution (VOS), a Taiwanese optical chip designer, according to VOS parent VIA Technologies, according...
