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Oak Technology enters the CDR software scene with "SimpliCD"
"...Oak Technology today announced its new SimpliCD Compact Disc recording software, designed to significantly improve ease of use for CD-RW... -
Matsushita turns 1.44MB HD floppy into 32MB disk
"...High-density floppies will get a new lease on life next year as the next generation SuperDisk drive will give high-density... -
HP to pay antipiracy fee for CD burners :(((((
"...Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has become the first company to be snagged by a German law requiring firms to pay fees... -
Rimage announces Producer Prostar shipping
"...Rimage has announced mass shipping for the most sophisticated, highest-production-throughput automated CD-R/DVD-R publishing system in the industry. Producer Prostar was... -
Oak announces new chipset for portable CDR-W drives
"...Oak Technology today announced its second-generation front-end signal processor for high performance CD-RW drive applications. The highly integrated device supports... -
I-OData ships FireWire (IEE1394) 12/10/32/8 CDR-W/DVD-Rom drive
I-O Data soon will ship the FireWire version of the famous Ricoh MP9120A. The drive supports 12x writing, 10x re-writing,... -
Import taxes mulled for PS2
"...Is Sony's new PlayStation 2 a video game player or a computer? It's more than just a marketing question: The... -
Pioneer introduces DVR-2000 DVD Recorder!
"...Pioneer today announced its introduction of the company's 2nd generation DVD Recorder, the "DVR-2000", to the Japanese domestic market. The... -
New DVD players coming for US market ;)
"...Two new DVD players on shelves this fall in time for the holiday shopping season are powered by National Mediamatics... -
SMSC demonstrates USB 2.0 ATAPI/ATA prototype system
"...Standard Microsystems announced today that it had successfully demonstrated a USB 2.0 to ATAPI/ATA/FDC drive adapter prototype IC system to... -
More TDK 161040 spicy info..
We posted 2 days ago the news about coming TDK 161040 CDR-W drive. As you already have figured out the... -
Ricoh announces 7125A (12/10/32) with JustLink
Ricoh announced today the shipping of 7125A CDR-W drive from 1st of December in Japan. It will support: 12x writing,... -
Afreey licenses Zen TrueX DVD technology
"...Zen Research, the innovative designer of high-performance, TrueX and Multibeam drives, announced today that Afreey, a leading high-performance Taiwan-based drive... -
TDK 161040 CDR-W drive coming..
We knew that 16x writers would shortly follow after first Yamaha's 16x writer. Today we have a proof for this.... -
Why is Prodisc pushing its brand-name optical disks?
"...Most optical disk manufacturers in Taiwan have been producing for large OEM or ODM buyers. However, Prodisc Technology Inc. has... -
Elantec announces laser driver which enables up to 20x CD-R/W speeds
"...Elantec Semiconductor introduced a new high-speed laser driver in an ultra-thin package ideal for applications with height constraints such as... -
QPICT and Sanyo collaborate on MP3/CD Player reference design
"...QPICT and Sanyo will collaborate in developing a complete MP3CD player reference solution. Sanyo will contribute their CD system expertise... -
Royal Philips Electronics announces a CD-R Disc compliance reward
"...Philips wish to show their appreciation of loyal licensees who are fully complying with the CD-R Disc Patent License Agreement... -
TTR's audio antipiracy technology
"...TTR Technologies, a little-known company whose stock trades on the Nasdaq but is headquartered in Israel, expects to be a... -
DVD+RW prototype drives shown at Comdex 2000
"...Hewlett-Packard ,Philips Electronics and Ricoh, three of the six CD-ReWritable technology industry leaders supporting the DVD+RW format, today displayed prototype...