Universal Music Group (UMG) unveiled an ambitious plan late last month to incorporate copy protection measures on all of its...

More than 100,000 pieces of counterfeit video CDs (VCDs), CD-Roms and DVDs were seized, and 15 men were arrested, as...

Archos has taken the CDRW market to a new level of efficiency and portability with the MiniCDRW II -- the...

German police last month seized near here the largest underground pirate CD plant to be found in Europe, reported the...

European antitrust officials are looking into a possible cartel in online music distribution involving two recently created joint ventures. However,...

Plextor today announces the newest addition to its range - the PlexWriter S88TU. This is Plextor's first external, portable drive...

HP will begin phasing out off-the-shelf CD-RW (CD-rewriteable) drives as the company begins a shift toward more expensive and possibly...

Distribution of the DVD+R Physical and Video Format specifications Version 0.9 September 2001. It contains the requirements for the mechanical,...

CyberLink announced that PowerDVD 3.0 will be shipped with Hewlett-Packard Company's new HP DVD-writer dvd100i, its first combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive...

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,...