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Acer spins off peripheral unit!
Acer Communication & Multimedia, the peripheral manufacturing unit of Acer, has been spun off from the parent company and renamed... -
Taiwan makers: OEM prices for DVD+R/-Rs discs to bottom out in 3Q
The OEM price level of blank DVD+R/-R discs has been falling since early this year due to oversupply, but the... -
Samsung announced SM-248F (48/24/48) CD-RW drive
Samsung posted the full specs of the SM-248F CD-RW drive. It supports 48X writing, 24X re-writing, 48X reading, 8MB buffer... -
Kano Technologies intros DVD+RW/R storage solution for desktop backup and restore
Kano Technologies (www.kanotechnologies.com), a new DVD+RW/R storage-solutions company, is introducing its first product at COMDEX Monday. The K2EXTREME DVD+RW/R internal... -
Mediatek to become UMC’s biggest customer with rise in orders
Taiwan-based IC design house Mediatek will boost orders to United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) by about 150% this quarter, overtaking Xilinx... -
TDK Europe announces TDK CyClone 321040
TDK Europe has opened the website of the upcoming TDK Cyclone 32x recorder. The drive supports 32x writing, 10x re-writing... -
New DVD-14 format
DVD-14 is starting to make some noise with new releases from MGM this fall. DVD-14, which is currently manufactured in... -
Philips And Software Architects, Inc. Agree To Co-Develop Advanced CD-MRW Drive Technology
Philips Components, a division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, and Software Architects, Inc. (SAI), have signed a joint... -
Replace your Scratched DVDs and Game Discs
Skippy Disc has come to the rescue of expensive DVDs and game discs that get tossed onto the scratched pile... -
HP Reduces 34% Prices on Premium Performance CD-Writers
"..Hewlett-Packard has announced a 34 percent price reduction on its premium performance line of CD-Writer Plus internal and external drives... -
Microsoft shows mobile video player with HD
Microsoft disclosed a prototype of its "Portable Media Center," a mobile video player with an HDD featuring tens of gigabytes... -
More production of Pre-recorded disc in Taiwan.
Feng Sheng Technology and Homenema Disk, two Taiwanese manufacturers of pre-recorded optical discs, will expand their monthly production capacities to... -
SunnComm Technologies partners with DCA, Inc
SunnComm Technologies, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with DCA, Inc., the industry leader in optical disc signal processing. The partnership... -
Taiyo Yuden to double monthly DVD-R output to 4 million
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. will expand its production capacity for making DVD-Rs (recordable digital video discs) by the spring to... -
Matsushita hopes for overseas DVD recorder growth next year
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (MC or 6752) is hoping to match the domestic success of its DVD recorders in overseas... -
Media-Tech show report
The first Media-Tech Showcase in the United States, featuring a tabletop exhibition of replication and duplication equipment alongside the co-located... -
Sony Europe announces DRU500A supporting DVD±R/RW formats!
Sony Semiconductor Electronic Solutions Europe launches the world’s first truly multi-format DVD ReWritable (DVD RW) drives to support the DVD+RW,... -
Sony to Use non-flammable plastic in new DVD players
Sony announced that its latest DVD players, due out this fall, will be housed in a nonflammable, environmentally-friendly biomass plastic... -
Game-console makers cut prices ahead of yearend showdown in Japan
Makers of video game consoles are gearing up for the all-important yearend shopping season. Dangling marked-down price tags before the... -
DVD-R disc prices likely to rise in 2Q
As DigiTimes report "...According to Taiwanese manufacturers, contract prices for DVD-R discs quoted to brand vendors may rise in the...