The Japanese Recording-Media Industries Association recently announced its forecasts for 2004 global demand and production of recording media products based upon estimates for 2003. The...

More leading Japanese DVD drive makers like Sony and Teac have speeded up outsourcing 4x DVD+RW drives to Taiwan following recent steep price falls, according...

CMC Magnetics, Ritek and Prodisc Technology, the three largest producers of optical discs in Taiwan, are expanding their production capacities of blank DVD-R discs to...

Contract manufacturing prices for 4x recordable DVD+RW drives have declined by 9-10% since the beginning of the fourth quarter after declining 30-40% over the previous...

Asustek Computer has started test production of pick-up heads (PUHs) for optical disc drives (ODDs) and is expected to become the first Taiwanese manufacturer to...

Taiwan’s suppliers of DVD drives could have the opportunity of repeating the past performance of CD-RW era by overtaking international competitors in 2004 in high-speed...

Global demand for DVD+R/-R discs will more than double to 1.5 billion units in 2004 from an estimated 700 million units in 2003, buoyed by...

More of Taiwan’s notebook and mini-PC makers are bundling combo drives into their low-end models, taking advantage of falling prices resulting from the increasing number...

The global recordable DVD drive market will become volatile in the fourth quarter of 2003 as makers in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are ramping...