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Shutdown of Taiwanese PUH supplier Optrodyne tells the industry’s woes
Taiwanese optical drive pick-up head (PUH) supplier Optrodyne has announced it has terminated operations, in a sign of the long... -
Toshiba reorganizes Video recording equipment business
Toshiba Corporation today announced a reinforcement of its visual imaging business that will unify its analogue and digital imaging businesses... -
First 48X RW drive (48x12x48x) in the market launched by LITE-ON!
The fastest RW burner in the market today is designed and manufactured by LITE-ON IT Corp. The drive provides 48X... -
Universal, Sony to trim download prices
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment plan to cut prices for digital music downloads and add new features, including... -
ASUS showed 24x re-writer at Taipei 2002
ASUS presented a new recorder with 24x re-writing speed at the Taipei 2002 show. The new drive with the codename... -
ALi narrows gap with Mediatek in China DVD player servo chip market
With the rising market share of its partner Wadeh Electronics, a DVD player loader maker, ALi Corporation’s (formerly Acer Laboratories)... -
Patent enforcement by Philips hit sales of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized CD-R disc makers
CD-R disc exports to the US and Europe from small and medium-sized manufacturers in Taiwan have been reduced sharply following... -
YAMAHA talks about Full CAV vs. Zone-CLV
Yamaha Electronics Corporation has remained at the top of the CD recording industry by consistently introducing innovative technology that commands... -
Philips set to take number one position in consumer Electronics in Europe
Royal Philips Electronics today introduced its new marketing strategy for the Consumer Electronics market. With 'consumer focus' the most important... -
File sharing and CD burners proliferate
While debate intensifies within the music industry over the degree of impact that peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burning has... -
New Discribe update supports 48x CD burners
Charismac Engineering has added support for 48x CD burners to its Discribe CD/DVD mastering software. The new version, Discribe 5.0.18,... -
Lite-On Technology merger may increase foreign equities interest on the stock
Lite-On Technology's increased size after merging with three other Lite-On group companies will better position it to tap the international... -
Distributors and OEM clients holding off on purchases will hurt June sales for optical drive makers
Taiwan’s major optical storage drive manufacturers all posted lower revenues in May and predict weak sales in June, weighted down... -
IBM ties nanotechology to storage...
IBM Tuesday revealed another experiment from one of its many laboratories this year. Using aspects of an increasingly popular trend... -
Pioneer announces DVR7000 firmware upgrade!
Pioneer has discovered a software issue which may affect the functioning of the DVR-7000. This software issue doesn't pose any... -
Taiwan's opto-Electronics industry beats downturn...
Although Taiwan's opto-electronics production value rose only a moderate 10.7 percent in 2001 to NT$442.8 billion, lower than its pace... -
TEAC presents the 52x IDE CD-ROM drive!
The TEAC CD-552E 52x drive transfers data at a speed of up to 7.8 MB/s and, with an average access... -
Global report shows disc piracy 50% up despite sharp increase in enforcement actions...
Global sales of pirate music discs rose nearly 50% to an all-time high of 950 million units in 2001. The... -
VISIONTEK expands XTASY product line at Best Buy to include high-end optical drives
VisionTek, a leading provider of advanced graphics and memory solutions for PCs, today announced that it has expanded its award-winning... -
Recordable DVD press conference @ PCExpo
PC Expo Press Conference/Reception focusing on shipping DVD Multi products that read/write DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW & play on consumer and...
