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New hardware review by CDRinfo team
Our hardware review section is updated with a new article. We present the Aopen CRW5232 IDE 52x CD-RW recorder, in... -
Filmgoers targeted over piracy
Moves to ban US filmgoers from videotaping films inside cinemas have been stepped up by the movie industry. Suspected offenders... -
EVD players delay from China makers
Chinese optical drive makers have delayed the release of EVD (enhanced versatile disc) players, China’s self-developed DVD format, for one... -
Philips to Produce DVD-Audio Capable ‘Universal’ Disc Module
Exclusive: Philips are to introduce an SACD and DVD-Audio solution to market in the form of the SD 5.2, an... -
Multi-Standard Video Decoding Solution by Philips
Philips Electronics introduced the SAA7154 system chip solution - a video decoder, scaler and de-interlacer with picture improvements and memory-less... -
More production of Pre-recorded disc in Taiwan.
Feng Sheng Technology and Homenema Disk, two Taiwanese manufacturers of pre-recorded optical discs, will expand their monthly production capacities to... -
EFI instead of BIOS
Intel and Microsoft will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting... -
LITE-ON external 8x DVD dual drive available in the market
The external LDW-851SX DVD Dual Drive is currently available in the market. The USB 2.0 drive is able to write... -
Japanese chipmakers to skip New Year holidays to meet surge
Several major Japanese chipmakers have decided to have staff give up their New Year holidays to meet a demand surge... -
A quick look back at important happenings in 2003
With 2003 about to fade into history, MMIS has taken a quick look back at this year’s happenings in the... -
DVD-Dual chipsets by Philips in 2004
Philips Semiconductors, a long-time advocate of the DVD+RW standard, expects to start providing DVD recorder-use chipsets supporting the DVD-Dual format... -
400,000 DVD REC. will be shiped by Eastech in 2004
Eastern Asia Technology (Eastech), a Taiwanese-invested company listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), expects to ship between 400,000 and 500,000... -
CyberLink began offering CyberLink DVD Solution for international manufacturers of DVD drives/recorders
CDS combines five to six different software products for creativity in movie, video, photo and music. Although CyberLink has not... -
Microsoft aims to make spammers pay
Despite efforts to stem the billions of spam e-mails flooding inboxes, unwanted messages are still turning e-mail into a quagmire... -
Yamaha to Ship New Semiconductor Chip in January
Yamaha will begin shipment of YDA136, a semiconductor chip for DVD players and other audio-visual home appliances, on January 30,... -
ALi gets DVD player single-chip orders from LGE, Daewoo
ALi, a Taiwanese IC design company, has landed orders for its second-generation DVD player single chip from South Korea-based LG... -
Toshiba:Memory Device with 3.2GHz Data Transfer Speed from
Toshiba Corporation announced that it had started to sample 512-megabit XDRTM DRAMs with a data transfer speed of 3.2GHz, the... -
Ulead with Disney will develop a special version of Ulead's DVDR PictureShow™ 2
Ulead Systems, has collaborated with Disney Interactive to develop a special version of DVDR PictureShow™ 2, Ulead's digital photo slideshow... -
Philips and Sainsbury's settled on action over the importation of DVD players
Philips commenced legal proceedings against Sainsbury's this week in the High Court over the importation of DVD players. The players... -
Q-Video, the one-click solution for putting video onto DVD by BenQ
BenQ has released Q-Video, a simple one-click solution for backing up your movies onto DVD. Together with the BenQ DVD+RW...