We received some inside information about the upcoming Easy CD-DA Extractor release v10. Easy CD-DA is one of the oldest and most popular audio CD rippers in the world. In time it has evolved into a fully featured audio software suite which can rip, encode to many formats (AAC, MP3, WMA..) and burn your audio [...]
According to DVD-Recordable.org, Ciba Specialty Chemicals has filed a patent infringement suit in Germany and the Netherlands against RITEK and its european subsidiaries Conrexx Technology B.V., RME Manufacturing GmbH, RITEK Media Europe, and PrimeDisc Technologies GmbH.
DVD2One is one of the oldest DVD-to-DVD-R transcoders. The software development has always had the emphasis on simple usage and high speed of the transcoding. While transcoders like DVD2One are attractive due to their fast speed, the compression quality is sacrificed for speed. Especially with longer movies, the resulting copy can look pretty bad - [...]
Sony is pushing back the worldwide release date for the PS3 game console to early November. That is because of delays in finalizing copyright-protection specifications in the Blu-ray standard, which will be the underlying high-definition DVD format for the PS3.
The CDR-Zone have reviewed yet another AVI to DVD conversion tool, 1Click ivxToDVD. Based on their review, it does live up to it’s name by offering simplicity of use, while lacking more advanced features. It is interesting to see how long Divx Networks allows them to use the trade marked “Divx” name on the software. [...]
Fujitsu-Siemens announced at CeBIT that it would not choose a side in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray next-gen-DVD war. Fujitsu’s move comes only days after LG announced it was pulling out of exclusive Blu-ray support in favor of a neutral stance.
TV star host Conan O’Brien visited Finland a few weeks ago, which of course gained a lot of news headlines in the Finnish press, as Conan’s show is a very popular one in Finland too. The most recent news headline of Conan was the broadcasting of the Finland special episode in the American television. The [...]
The CDR-Zone have reviewed Verbatim’s high speed Double Layer media. As always when there is a new Verbatim/Mitsubishi product out, the expectations could not be higher. Based on their tests and results, Verbatim once again lives up to their reputation as a top quality media provider.
TDK Corporation announced today that the board of directors decided at the board meeting held on March 8, 2006, to further accelerate the restructuring of recording media business, to withdraw from the manufacturing of recordable CD&DVD products in TDK group. Consequently, TDK decided to shut down the production facilities at its European subsidiary, TDK Recording [...]
The first HD DVD-equipped system to ship in Europe will be Toshiba’s Qosmio G30 notebook, which the company launched today. Toshiba confirmed the G30’s built-in HD DVD drive will not check for region encoding. The reason for the lack of region support is due to early HD DVD releases being mostly back-catalogue movies. Studios are [...]
