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Crest National and Philips partner to bring SACD hybrid disc manufacturing to the USA
Royal Philips Electronics and Crest National, a leader in the film, video and optical media industries, today announced a partnership... -
Record companies look for answers as CD burning, file-swapping threaten industry
A new technology lets people copy music for free. Lawsuits are filed. Music sales dip. The viability of the recording... -
Sanyo enters the DVD format with CRD-DV1
Sanyo Japan plans to release this summer a new super combo drive with the codename "CRD-DV1". The drive will support... -
Sony announces "Postscribed ID" technology for CD-ROM discs
Sony Japan today announced a new technology called "Postscribed ID" for used with CD-ROMs. With the current CD-ROM technology, we... -
CD-R Prices predicted to rebound in second half...
Taiwan market research organization, the, Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association, predicts that a strain on the supply of CD-Rs... -
BenQ to showcase 52x recorder in COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2002!
After the global identity launch program in 2001, BenQ will create another focus on enhancing its brand equity by participating... -
Freecom FHD-1 - The Intelligent Solution
Freecom presents the first intelligent external hard drive: the SYNC function with intelligent data matching backs up and manages your... -
Midbar expands into Taiwanese market
Midbar announced today that the CDS processor, the encoder of the Cactus Data Shield copy control system, is now installed... -
June CD-R contract price increases boost hopes for better margins
Taiwan’s optical disc manufacturers are rolling out long-anticipated price increases in CD-R discs. Per-unit contract prices of blank discs for... -
Macrovision post comments upon the felt-tip marker trick
Internet newsgroups and websites have recently been circulating news of users having circumvented Sony’s Key2Audio™ audio CD copy protection by... -
Fujitsu Introduces New Low-Profile Enterprise Hard Disk Drive Series with Capacities Up to 147GB
Fujitsu, one of the leading suppliers of hard drives and computer peripherals, today unveiled its next generation of low-profile, high-speed... -
SEAGATE ENTERS RETAIL WITH NEW CLASS OF CONSUMER-FRIENDLY HARD DRIVE
Seagate has partnered with leading retailers Fry's Electronics and Outpost.com to bring a new class of hard drives direct to... -
ALi president: DVD players still enjoy great growth potential
Although Sony and Microsoft have cut their game console prices lately, the trend should not affect demand for PCs and... -
DVD-compatible optical disk hits 100 Gbytes
A physics professor at a leading Taiwanese university has led a group of researchers in developing a recordable optical disk... -
Taiwan joins Chinese effort on proprietary DVD format
Separate consortia in Taiwan and China are pecking away at a new DVD format that would enable disk and player... -
SAI ships recordable DVD writing Utility
Software Architects, Inc. (SAI) announced the commercial release of WriteDVD!(TM) Pro v4.0 for MS Windows and Apple systems. Version 4.0... -
Media firms lobby piracy controls to EU!
Every CD or DVD manufactured in the European Union would have to carry code designed to help track down pirated... -
Lite-On IT moves into optical pick-up head production
Lite-On IT has decided to move into production of pick-up heads with its joint-venture partner, Victor Co. of Japan Ltd.,... -
BenQ introduces two new external CD rewriters
BenQ, one of the world leaders in CD (re)writing technology, is introducing two cutting-edge external CD rewriters: the very compact... -
Taiwan develops develop 100GB optical disc
A team of researchers at Taipei's National Taiwan University (NTU) have developed a prototype rewritable optical disc that can store...