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Mitsubishi Electric joins Blu-ray Disc founders
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the existing nine Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF)* today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has become a new... -
Waitec presents new MPEG-4 home DVD player
Waitec announced the DVD-X4 home DVD player, with MPEG-4 support. The player supports decoding of DivX and xVid and is... -
Ricoh announces the MP5240A DVD recorder
Ricoh Japan announced the new MP5240A DVD+R/RW recorder. The drive was demonstrated in CeBIT this year and will be available... -
Quanta Storage reportedly starts slim-type combo drive shipments to Dell
Quanta Storage, a Taiwan-based optical storage drive maker, has recently started shipping slim-type combo drives to Dell Computer, with initial... -
Magix announces Audio Cleaning Lab 2004
MAGIX announced today MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2004, a powerful music restoration tool for cleaning, restoring, and burning vinyl, cassette,... -
Sony shows revamped PlayStation 2 machine
Sony showed on Wednesday a revamped PlayStation 2 video game machine that also has a DVD recorder and TV tuner,... -
Major brand hard drive vendors recall defective products produced in China
Three major brand hard drive vendors – Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – have started recalling some... -
Primera announces Software Developer's Kit (SDK) and network software for its BravoT disc publisher
Primera Technology announced its new PTBurn Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for its best-selling Bravo Disc Publisher. Also announced is a... -
Philips says consumer gadgets to lift chip sales
Philips sees the stagnant market for its semiconductors recovering to 12 percent growth, driven in part by dvd recorders which... -
New half-height slim-type DVD+RW drives by Quanta Storage
Quanta Storage, the largest slim-type optical storage drive maker in Taiwan, expects to launch half-height, desktop-use DVD+RW drives in June... -
Pioneer stops using VIA DVD-ROM chip sets
Japan-based Pioneer recently stopped ordering DVD-ROM chip sets from VIA Optical Solution (VOS), a Taiwanese optical chip designer, according to... -
Portable slimtype DVD+R/RW recorder by Logitec
Logitec announced a new slim type DVD+R/RW recorder. The LDR-PR22U2 drive supports USB 2.0/1.1 interfaces and 2.4x DVD+R/RW writing. Availability... -
Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell develop multilayer optical disc for Terabyte recording
Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell announced that they have jointly developed a new basic technology for multilayer optical discs.The technology allows... -
Sigma introduces new MPEG 4 decoder
Sigma Designs today announced that its EM8500 family of DVD decoder chips are now used worldwide by more than eleven... -
Canopus launches the MPEGPRO series of realtime MPEG encoding and DVD authoring solutions
Canopus Corporation today announced a new line of professional realtime MPEG encoding and DVD authoring solutions for DVD producers, multimedia... -
NEC Europe chooses Sonic MyDVD and CinePlayer for DVD-recordable Drives
Sonic Solutions announced today that NEC Europe has selected Sonic MyDVD®4 and Sonic CinePlayer(TM) 1.5 as the DVD creation and... -
Fast DVD+R/RW recordings by Microsolutions
Micro Solutions has started shipping its new Hi-Speed USB 2.0 DVD+RW backpack drive. The new external backpack DVD+RW gives computer... -
New site offers legal music downloads
Web site Puretunes.com has joined the ranks of sites taking advantage of the willingness of Spanish authors' and performers' rights... -
MSI unveils Premium CR52-M (52x32x52) CD-R/RW Writer
MSI, a well-known manufacturer of motherboards, graphic cards and other computer products, today introduced its new 52x32x52x CD-R/RW writer --... -
BenQ launches portable, three-in-one DVD player
BenQ announced the launch of its portable DVD player, the BenQ 6024DP DVD-Gem. At only 1.2 pounds and 5.3-inches (w)...
