Plasmon Plc today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Exabyte Corporation to purchase design and manufacturing licenses...

Hitachi and Asahi Optical have jointly developed an optical-head technology that they say will enable a 100-Gbyte optical-disk system. Hitachi...

Toshiba Japan announced today a new DVD-ROM model with the codename "SD-M1612". The new DVD-ROM model supports ALL DVD recording...

HP is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable...

Yamaha announced the CRW3200 family of optical recorders, which will make their debut with an internal IDE model (CRW3200EZ) in...

At CEATEC JAPAN 2001 held from October 2 to 6 at Makuhari Messe, Matsushita Electric Industrial exhibited its DVD-based next-generation...

Philips Electronics NV plans to lay off a total of 441 employees from its production facilities in Hasselt, Belgium and...

Here is the translation from the original press release (German): "...like so much in our time also CD under license...

Alera Technologies announced today that it will start shipping its new 32x CD-Recording solution this quarter. Alera Technologies 32x CD-Recorder...

Microsoft Co., Ltd. of Japan disclosed on Oct. 3 its first own-brand software for "Xbox," a game machine for home...

Ulead Systems, Inc., a leading developer of video editing, image editing and Web graphics software, today introduced Ulead DVD MovieFactory,...

Iomega today announced it has entered into the CD recording software business. In introducing the new package called Iomega HotBurn,...

TEAC's CD-W524E with firmware v1.0A supports the BURN-Proof feature as the BURN-Proof center certificates. Its writing speeds are: 4x, 8x,...

CEATEC JAPAN 2001 featured several exhibits aimed at realizing MPEG4 video replay in a mobile environment. Sanyo Electric, for example,...

Macrovision announces a series of new investments and strategic partnerships in private companies with next generation, best-of breed technologies that...

The Microboards Orbit II DVD-R and CD-R desktop publishing system, now available from MARCAN, produces DVDs twice as fast as...

Some folks are wondering if and when Apple will support DVD-RW capabilities in its SuperDrive. Don't look for it in...

Elantec Semiconductor is now shipping a new high speed laser driver IC designed specifically to enable increases in the CD...

IFPI has broken new ground in the fight against piracy in South East Asia by signing a 'good business practices'...

Police seizures of counterfeit recordable compact discs (CD-Rs) surpassed 1.2 million in the U.S. during the first half of 2001,...