Verbatim/MKM, announced today a breakthrough in archival media technology that will provide government agencies, organizations and end users with highly compatible, super long life DVD media for storing critical data and preserving precious memories. The new technology, which has been submitted for patent protection, is based on the company’s new Dual Reflective Layer technology. Verbatim [...]
Nero comes up with an update. Only three corrections in this version, but it does fix a serious crash bug. New addition is the support for Labelflash technology.
Ricoh Co., Ltd has developed recordable disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD, the next-generation DVD formats, and starts shipping samples to hardware manufacturers. The samples to be shipped are BD-R and HD DVD-R, write-once disks for Blue-ray Disk and HD DVD respectively. They have a capacity of 25 GB (BD-R) and 15 GB (HD [...]
TDK announced that it is to begin shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc (BD) media across Europe and will follow with 50GB media in April. TDK is the first to market with bare Blu-ray Disc media. Recommended Retail Pricing is set at 15 Euro for a 25GB BD-R (write once), 20 Euro for a [...]
The report by CE Pro suggests that LG is adjusting their market entry strategy for the high definition DVD players. According to the source, LG would be dropping the already announced BD199 Blu-ray player, and going for a hybrid model to be released later summer or early fall. Also, their planned HDTV product is to [...]
Maxell is the first company in the world to launch the 12x DVD-RAM Media. Maxell’s 12x DVD-RAM media should ship on March 24th and it will cost about $8.6US per disc.
VSO has released a cumulative update for ConvertXtoDVD. The new v2.0.9 a load of fixes that were first released only to internal test builds. Few days ago we reported the leak of v2.0.8 from VSO servers. The list of bug fixes is long, but there are also some improvements. Perhaps the most significant upgrade is [...]
AACS (Advanced Access Content System) includes, the ability to allow content owners to determine what kinds of outputs HD video is directed towards, the license also includes a forced sunset for most of those outputs. Most analog playback devices aren’t particularly well suited to DRM control. Hollywood obviously hates the analog outputs, and they have [...]
