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DVD rentals top videocassettes for first time
Weekly rentals of DVDs outpaced videos for the first time last week, an industry group said on Thursday, as movies... -
Infogrames CEO upbeat on Matrix sales
Europe's largest video game maker, Infogrames/Atari said on Thursday it was confident it would reach and even beat a sales... -
Asia releases new StarForce Professional v3.0 protected games
“Fantasy Sango” is a new RPG, protected from copying with StarForce Professional 3.0. It is published in Taiwan and Hong... -
Nintendo wins piracy case against Hong Kong firm
Japanese videogame maker Nintendo said on Thursday it has won one of its "most significant anti-piracy judgments ever" against a... -
Software Architects announces Blu-Ray disc file system developer toolkit
Software Architects announced the commercial release of its Blu-ray Disc File System developer toolkit for MS Windows.. Targeted at developers... -
Microsoft looks to boost slow Japan Xbox sales: CEO
Sales of the home-use Xbox game console are sluggish in Japan, but console developer Microsoft Corp plans to keep its... -
Mitsui Chemicals to withdraw from optical disk business
Mitsui Chemicals announced June 18 its decision to withdraw from manufacturing and selling CD-R/DVD-R disks. The company left the European,... -
Pacific Digital bundles Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Basic with its DVD+R/+RW burners
Pacific Digital is now bundling Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Basic with its new DVD burners, beginning with... -
Nero Software included in Pioneer's latest Multi-Format DVD/CD writer
Nero, has announced that Nero Express 5.5, the easy-to-use DVD/CD application software, is to be included with all U.S. retail... -
Lite-On IT expects to ship up to one million recordable DVD drives in 2003
In 2003, Taiwan-based optical storage drive makers are expected to ship between two million and 2.4 million half-height recordable DVD... -
Ritek claims No. 1 position in recordable DVD disc market worldwide
Taiwan-based Ritek has maintained the number one position in the recordable DVD disc market since the second half of last... -
Prices for CD-RW and combo drives plunge
Prices for both half-height CD-RW and combo drives have dropped sharply since early 2003. Contract manufacturing prices for 52x half-height... -
Cycle Software Services now offering HexaLock CD-ROm copy protection solutions
Hexalock announced today that Cycle Software Services, a leader in providing full turnkey media solutions to the book publishing industry,... -
EclipseSuite version 2.0 Released
Eclipse Data Technologies released a new version of the EclipseSuite. EclipseSuite is a comprehensive set of CD & DVD tools... -
Ahead Software announces Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition!
Nero 6.0 will make its much anticipated debut at CeBIT 2003 at the Jacob Javits... -
Tvia announces sale of software assets to MediaTek
Tvia, Inc., a provider of multimedia display processors for the advanced television and emerging display markets, announced today that it... -
Immediatek and SunnComm partner to bring secure burn solution to Electronic Music Distribution
Immediatek has announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with SunnComm Technologies by incorporating SunnComm's unique MediaMax(TM) copy management... -
Elaborate Bytes releases CloneDVD
The first version of CloneDVD is released by Elaborate Bytes. The new software extracts, transcodes and writes... -
CyberLink announces PowerDVD 5
CyberLink announced the release of PowerDVD 5, a new version of the well-known software to deliver the ultimate DVD entertainment... -
Iomega unveils multiformat DVD burner
Iomega is taking multiformat DVD burning a step further, unveiling this week the Super DVD Drive, which combines all three...