Imation Corp today announced the availability of its Blu-ray media to major IT and data storage channel partners at its “Blue Technology” conference. Available in recordable (BD-R) and rewritable (BD-RE) formats, Imation Blu-ray discs store up to 25 GB of digital files (five times the capacity of standard DVDs) and are ideal for reliable business backup, including medical and government imaging, photography, videography, as well as high definition video recording.

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HD DVD Turns Up The Heat with ‘The Look and Sound of Perfect’ Marketing Campaign. Leading Content, Consumer Electronics and Information Technology Companies Unveil New HD DVD Marketing Organization and Multi-Million Dollar Advertising and Publicity Campaign. The group and its member companies plan to back the campaign with an anticipated $150M in trade and consumer marketing, advertising and promotion through the 2006 Holiday season and into 2007.

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Pioneer, one of the key players in the High Definition format war, has admitted that their Blu-ray player will not launch in September. Instead they are now talking about the CES 2007 expo as the D-day for the European invasion. While Toshiba and the HD-DVD camp are having a slight head start in High Definition player sales, they have not been too successful either - products have not been launched in Europe and the U.S. consumers are complaining that the Toshiba has a poor availability.

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If you have ever considered purchasing one of SlySoft’s fine products, which include CloneDVD and several other backup tools, then now would be a good time to act. The Antiguan company was found in July 2003, and now they have a special promotional campaign to celebrate their 3rd birthday. Their special birthday offer will earn you $5…$20 discounts, depending on your purchases.

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Blu-ray and HD DVD should be highly secure as you know. Well, German CT magazine found a huge whole in the copyright protection of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies. There is AACS and HDCP, which when enforced make it impossible to copy movie data from a disc. CT found out that you can make copy each frame of a movie by just pushing print screen on a computer. This process could be automated by dedicated program of course. They tested this with the Blu-ray Sony Vaio VGC-RC 204 and the HD DVD Toshiba Qosmio G30 notebook.

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Philips Electronics has been pushing the authorities to seize optical media shipments that according to Philips violate their optical disc patents. However, they have faced a setback as authorities are saying that Philips has no to demand products for other vendors to be seized. And on top of that, the European distributors are planning to sue Philips to get compensation of their lost profits.

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LG has gained a rather steady position in the DVD recordable market, due to their decent price/quality ratio. With Blu-ray their intention seems to be competitive from the beginning, as they are launching the GWB-H10N recorder. Not much information is yet revealed about this CD/DVD/BD recorder, but the price tag is about $923 in Taiwan.

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Few days ago the Nero Burning ROM recording software suite was upgraded, and now we have updated the download files on out server. The update contains a number of critical errors, like MP3 audio problems and crashing if the demo period had expired.

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BenQ has released their triple format recorder titled BenQ Trio Writer BW1000. Besides Blu-ray, DVD and CD recording, the new writer comes with all the BenQ goodies, like SolidBurn, WOPC, WriteRight and so on. The cute looking drive has a not so cute price tag of €799.

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Verbatim today announced their new Mini DVD+R Double-Layer (DL) disc. Measuring only 8cm in diameter, the new discs provide nearly one hour of continuous video capture time on a single side or 2.6 GB of storage capacity- almost twice the capacity of current mini DVDR discs. Five-packs of Verbatim Mini DVD+R DL media will be available in July 2006, when the first new Mini +R DL-compatible camcorders are launched. The media can also be recorded with drives supporting the +R DL format.

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