Philips welcomes Microsoft support for DVD+RW format
Royal Philips Electronics today indicated that Microsoft, at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week, will announce their intention to incorporate the DVD+RW...
Philips and BenQ join forces to lead speed race in optical storage
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, and BenQ Corporation of Taiwan (formerly Acer Communications & Multimedia Inc.), today announced the signing of a memorandum of...
Philips moves against unlicensed DVD products
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. has initiated with the Customs Authorities in several countries inthe EU, border detention procedures in relation to unlicensed DVD-Video/ROM players and...
Philips ships new version of CD-R standard
As Philips posted at their homepage "...Release for distribution of version 1.2 dated April 2002 CD-R Part II Volume 2, Multi-Speed. This document defines discs...
Philips express complaints against Princo and Postech in the USA
In the USA Philips has filed complaints for infringement of Philips patents covering CD-R Disc technology. One complaint has been filed against Princo Corporation of...
Philips won lawsuit against Princo in Germany
In its drive to create a level playing field in the CD-R disc manufacturing industry Philips recently obtained a favorable judgment in a lawsuit against...
Philips signs five-year component deal with Dell
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV signed a five-year deal worth up to US$5 billion to supply PC monitors and components to Dell Computer Corp., Philips said...
Philips and Unaxis cooperate to optimize DVD+RW disc production process
Philips and Unaxis have come to an exclusive agreement to extensively cooperate on the production knowledge to optimize and share the production process for DVD+RW...
Philips introduces first CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive with Mount Rainier to replace floppy disk
Philips, a leader in optical storage technology, will start shipping EasyWrite enabled CD-RW/DVD-ROM drives in April 2002. The first drive in the Philips portfolio –...
Philips announces 2nd generation ‘JackRabbit’ external CD-RW drive
Philips’ new JackRabbit external drive features 24x CD-R recording and comes USB 2.0 ready. In addition, the drive offers backward compatibility to USB 1.1 systems...
