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Lite-On IT has reportedly obtained OEM orders for half-height (H/H) DVD burners from NEC through its strategic-alliance partner Sony. If true, Lite-On IT may become the largest global maker of H/H DVD burners next year.
The president of Warner Home Video is not happy about the fact that the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war is so closely tied to the gaming consoles. PlayStation 3 plays a major part here, giving serious edge to the Blu-ray format as it will bring millions of Blu-ray compatible players to the market in the near [...]
A defectively designed product? Well, at least Robert Byers from Chicago thinks so, as he has filed a class-action suit against Microsoft in an Illinois federal court. The suit claims that Microsoft has been in such a hurry to gain market share, that they would have released a product which is actually faulty in design.
The French government is about to pass a bill known as the DADVSI (Droits d’Auteur et Droits Voisins dans la Société de l’Information n°1206) prohibiting everything that could be considered as a tool or a solution to bypassing protections or read copyrighted formats. VSO Products may be banished as well as P2P clients, instant messaging, [...]
Panasonic has modified its existing pilot production line for single-layer Blu-ray Discs, called BD-ROM, so that it is able to replicate dual-layer BD-ROM discs with 50 gigabytes (GB) of storage capacity.
In the battle between still-unreleased next-generation DVD formats, Fox has already chosen sides. The studio says it sees Sony’s Blu-ray as the clear winner due to PlayStation 3 support, and, unlike other studios, will not produce movies in HD DVD.
While DVD Decrypter remains as the most preferred DVD ripper applications, it seems obvious that people are starting to look for other alternatives, as the development of DVDD has ceased quite some time ago. Driver based AnyDVD seems to be the most attractive alternative.
Lightning UK! has released a huge update to ImgBurn. The changelog is just huge, with a dazzling number of small feature additions. There is verify features, queuing of multiple image files, improved support for DVD-RAM…check it out yourself!
