Philips results in line despite sales drop
Philips Electronics NV on Tuesday reported better than expected first-quarter profit at most of its operations, boosting its shares despite sales that were sharply below...
Japanese vendor to order DVD-R from Prodisc
According to DigiTimes, Prodisc Technology recently landed an order for 2.4 and 4x DVD-R discs from a Japanese vendor, which has also placed the same...
SCEI gives PlayStation 2 the first major update
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will put an upgraded version of its PlayStation 2 video game on sale in Japan in mid May, the company...
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America announces DVD Player and recording products Line-up
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics introduced its line-up of DVD players and Digital/Analog recording solutions. In the DVD category, the company introduced three new models of progressive...
Philips announces v2.00 of the Mount Rainier Test Suite
Philips announced the v2.00 of the Mount Rainier Test Suite. The new version supports now both CD and DVD MRW compliant devices and has several...
Sony to market next-generation Optical disc drive based on Blu-Ray disc standard
Sony Corp has unveiled its latest next-generation optical disc product, an optical drive employing blue-laser technology. The new BW-F101 drive can read/write data from/to special...
Ciba Ultragreen MX CD-R Media certified to 54x
As the first 54x CD-RW writer has been announced to hit the market by middle of April, Ciba's Ultragreen CD-R dye media have been already...
Laser encoder to reduce industry costs
A research team sponsored by the National Science Council (NSC) has successfully developed a "laser encoder system" involving nano-optical technologies, the utilization of which could...
New MovieJack v.3 released
Engelman Media released the new version of the well-known MovieJack software, the MovieJack v3.0. The leading ripper currently supports DVD cloning along with DivX encoding,...
Piracy drives down global music sales
Global music sales fell 7 per cent last year to $32bn amid rampant illegal internet downloading and CD copying, according to new industry figures released...
