Mitsubishi Chemicals announced the availability of the company's first Blue-Ray disk for video recording (rewritable). The "BR23V1" Blue-Ray disk series...

Sony will have to face up to falling demand for its PlayStation 2 games console in the future, say analysts...

Royal Philips Electronics announced that Pioneer Corporation will use Philips’ Super Audio CD (SACD) single-chip solution, the SAA7893HL chip. Pioneer...

CyberLink introduced a unique utility, disc defragmentation, which moves all of the content on a DVD to one location so...

MET Technology introduced two own-brand consumer-use DVD recorders – the CyQ’ve PV 2400i and PV2400ie – with suggested retail prices...

CMC Magnetics expects to challenge for the lead among worldwide recordable blank DVD disc makers by year-end, according to DigiTimes...

Taiwan's optoelectronics industry production is forecast to exceed over NT$500 billion (US$14.5 billion) for 2003, National Science Council Vice Chairman...

Philips Syndicate has released new firmware versions for its various DVD player series. You can download the firmware for your...

Sony Electronics is lowering prices on the two new Dual RW drives that support 4X DVD+RW recording. The new prices...

The Computex 2003 exhibition, which will be held from September 22-26, is expected to be the largest ever, according to...

Copyright Office today posted comments from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) requesting protection for certain consumer uses of DVDs. EFF...

Although Gigabyte Technology was the last among first-tier motherboard makers to enter the optical storage arena, it will be the...

BTC launches the brand new BTC DRW 1004IM 4X DVD Dual Recorder, build with optical pick up heads & chip...

Hitachi Maxell announced the availability dates for 4X DVD+RW for video and 3X DVD-RAM discs. The DVD+RW discs are conformed...

Consumers have started to protest at attempts by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) to sue individuals for downloading...

The French Government is offering four million euros to help aspiring game developers turn their ideas into reality. In a...

Philips announced the Orange Book Part III for CD-RW, Volume 3. The specifications cover the Ultra Speed 32x CD-RW speeds...

ASUSTeK Computer announced the latest internal drive – the ASUS CRW-5232A, a new CD-RW drive supporting 52X write and 32X...

The selling date for Toshiba's new "RD-XS31" hybrid initially scheduled for July 22 changed due to firmware verification delays, according...

Panasonic announced two new DVD multi-drives supporting 3X DVD-RAM and 4X DVD-R writing. The internal ATAPI model is the "LF-M621"...