Posted June 18, 2006 
Comments(0) Lite-On IT will begin volume production of 18x DVD writers in July and plans to start production of 20x DVD writers in the fourth quarter of this year, according to DigiTimes. Lite-On IT will also kick off volume production of Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD optical drives in August.
Posted June 14, 2006 Comments(0) The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says unauthorised song swapping has been “contained” and pirates are now losing ground. The RIAA has managed to shut down BearShare, WinMX and Grokster while others have turned legitimate. It has sued over 18,000 individuals for sharing songs online, with 4,500 settling for about $4,000 per case.
Posted June 13, 2006 Comments(0) DVDReMake is a tool for editing your DVD content. It is especially designed for improving DVD backup quality by removing unnecessary content, such as extra features, trailers or copyright notices. DimadSoft released yesterday DvdReMake Pro 3.5.1 and DvdReMake 3.5.1.
Posted June 13, 2006 Comments(0) CyberHome Entertainment and Mustek Systems, have lowered retail prices by 20-30% for their entry-level DVD recorder models in the Taiwan market, according to DigiTimes. The 2006 Football World Cup was expected to boost demand for DVD recorders, but actual sales have been below expectations and CyberHome and Mustek took the initiative to cut prices in an attempt to clean inventories
Posted June 10, 2006 Comments(0) nVIDIA has announced PureVideo HD technology in order to accelerate high definition video playback on conventional PC computers. According to their website PureVideo delivers high quality HD video for Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats with reduced CPU load and power consumption with support up to 1080p resolution.
Posted June 8, 2006 Comments(0) Verbatim Corporation and its parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim/MKM) announced today that retailers in Japan will receive shipments of the industry’s first 15GB HD DVD-R media early in July. Production of 30GB dual layer HD DVD-R media will begin in June. Shipments to other parts of the world will begin when hardware products supporting these recordable formats become available. Verbatim/MKM is also expected to be first to market with HD DVD-RW rewriteable media, as soon as the official specification is released.
Posted June 7, 2006 Comments(0) Another day, another Blu-ray announcement. The HD-DVD camp had a head start, but Blu-ray camp is now really pushing the product announcements with a broad spectrum. Today the announcer is Philips which has always been a key player in the playback devices market, but has not been able to establish a steady position in the PC recorder market (perhaps excluding the early CD-R days..).
Posted June 6, 2006 Comments(0) Sony values greatly the PlayStation legacy, and according to the source they are making sure that the PS3 really is backwards compatible with PS2. While Microsoft Xbox 360 has an emulator software with very limited support for original Xbox titles, Sony is going to include the real PS2 core in PS3, until they have developed a fully compatible emulator. Great commitment from Sony!
Posted June 6, 2006 Comments(0) Lite-On IT, one of the world’s biggest optical disc drive manufacturers, is ready for the next generation of optical disc formats. Lite-On IT announced today to start producing BD (Blu-ray Disc) compatible drives in Q3 2006 and to introduce Lite-On branded Blu-ray drives to the market in August 2006.
Posted June 5, 2006 Comments(0) They say they are ready to ship before the end of the year. BenQ has made excellent progress in the DVD-R age. Their DVD recorders with WOPC (Walking Optimal Power Control) and other finesse features are products that many experts learned to trust. Until now the BenQ has kept quite a low profile regarding the next generation of recorders, but now they are coming out of the closet with a Blu-ray prototype. And based on their comments, BenQ is visioning a support for both, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, in the future.
