Mitsubishi Chemicals media announced 7 new types of 4x DVD+RW media, available on the market by the beginning of July...

Global semiconductor sales growth slowed more sharply than expected in April, highlighting the impact of weak consumer demand for PCs...

Taiwan DVD chip designer Mediatek Inc is set to take on some of the world's biggest semiconductor makers by diversifying...

EnXnet announced today that it has filed for patent protection on its proprietary product "DSTag," a device which is embedded...

Luminex Software announced its new DataWARE(TM) Workstation product line, which establishes a new standard for desktop optical data archiving and...

The California Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for May 29, 2003, on a key legal challenge to the publication...

Sony Communication Network Corp, or SCN, will begin testing a system on may 29 that transmits video content online in...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the existing nine Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF)* today announced that Mitsubishi Electric has become a new...

Waitec announced the DVD-X4 home DVD player, with MPEG-4 support. The player supports decoding of DivX and xVid and is...

Ricoh Japan announced the new MP5240A DVD+R/RW recorder. The drive was demonstrated in CeBIT this year and will be available...

Quanta Storage, a Taiwan-based optical storage drive maker, has recently started shipping slim-type combo drives to Dell Computer, with initial...

MAGIX announced today MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2004, a powerful music restoration tool for cleaning, restoring, and burning vinyl, cassette,...

Sony showed on Wednesday a revamped PlayStation 2 video game machine that also has a DVD recorder and TV tuner,...

Three major brand hard drive vendors – Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – have started recalling some...

Primera Technology announced its new PTBurn Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for its best-selling Bravo Disc Publisher. Also announced is a...

Philips sees the stagnant market for its semiconductors recovering to 12 percent growth, driven in part by dvd recorders which...

Quanta Storage, the largest slim-type optical storage drive maker in Taiwan, expects to launch half-height, desktop-use DVD+RW drives in June...

Japan-based Pioneer recently stopped ordering DVD-ROM chip sets from VIA Optical Solution (VOS), a Taiwanese optical chip designer, according to...

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 announced that they have jointly developed a new basic technology for multilayer optical discs.The technology allows...