Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its Xbox gaming console in Europe on March 14, 2002, the software giant confirmed Thursday. The Xbox will hit 16...

Sony’s demand for CD-ROM and CD-RW licensing fees from Lite-On IT has sparked concern for the fate of Taiwan’s DVD drive production lines. DVD drives...

DVD-ROM drives are now within NT$1,000 of their CD-ROM counterparts, and the assumption would be that they will eventually replace CD-ROM as the preferred optical...

Sonic Solutions and Canopus Corporation today announced that Sonic DVDit! is bundled with Canopus' line of digital video editing and MPEG encoding solutions. Combined with...

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand of consumer electronic and digital communications products, today announced that it has developed an...

Pioneer, the leader in DVD research, has launched the DVD-A06S, a new technological bombshell, onto the DVD-Rom market. Product Manager (Optical Systems) for Pioneer Europe's...

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, unveiled on Monday a recordable digital versatile disc (DVD) that stores 50 gigabytes of data...

Universal Music Group (UMG) unveiled an ambitious plan late last month to incorporate copy protection measures on all of its audio CDs by the first...

Philips Digital Networks, an entity of Royal Philips Electronics, and Digimarc Corp. announced Sept. 18 the extension of licensing of Digimarc's patents to support new...

British music giant EMI Group Plc on Monday appointed former PolyGram president Alain Levy as the new chief of its recorded music division in a...