The French roosters have updated two of their bestsellers. These products represent finest quality in the DVD recording market. CopyToDVD is bumped to a brand new version four. It features new user interface, support for Blu-ray, support for Windows Vista, new BlindWrite disc duplicator, etc. ConvertXtoDVD has received a major bug fixing update. Support is improved for .MP4, .MOV, .OGG, .ASF, .MKV and .AVI files.

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While Sony is struggling, Nintendo aims to be ready when it counts - for the holiday season sales. The price in the US market is confirmed at $250, which is dramatically less than the PS3 will be. On the other hand the device is not as advanced technically than it’s rivals. While Microsoft has sold 5 million Xbox 360’s so far, and is hoping to ship another 5 during this yeat, Nintendo hopes to ship 4 million before 2007. Also plenty of games are expected for the Wii during this year.

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TDK yesterday announced that it has begun shipping 50GB dual layer recordable Blu-ray Disc media. Retail pricing is set at $47.99 for a 50GB BD-R (recordable). TDK 50GB BD-RE (rewritable) media will be available in the first quarter of 2007 with retail pricing set at $59.99.

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A new version of ImgBurn has been release with a massive change log. A dozen of bug fixes, along with a huge number of small feature improvements. In case you did not know, ImgBurn is the successor of DVD Decrypter but due to legal issues without the actual DVD ripping engine. Even so, ImgBurn is a most useful and free tool for recording your CD/DVD images.

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It’s a real pancake. Combine two layers of DVD with one layer of HD-DVD. Or one layer of DVD, and two layers of HD-DVD. Choose the latter to achieve near 35 gigabytes of storage (30GB of HD-DVD and 4,7GB of DVD) while having regular DVD compatibility.

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BenQ has announced that the company will withdraw from the optical recording market in Europe. This is extremely bad news as BenQ has recently delivered very good drives in terms of features and quality, combined with a consumer friendly price. While bailing out from the European DVD-R market they also flush their Blu-ray drive down the toiled and it will never see the market.

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A while ago Microsoft announced an external HD-DVD add-on drive for Xbox 360, which is supposed to tackle Sony PS3’s integrated Blu-ray drive. The device is manufactured by Toshiba and was recently seen on their stand. Funny little detail is that the HD-DVD add-on for Xbox 360 is alone about the same size as the upcoming Nintendo Wii console!

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Sony did it again! The PS3 launch in Europe has been pushed back until 2007. Sony blamed manufacturing laser diodes for the PS3’s Blu-ray Disc drive for the shipment issues. “The revision of the launch date in European territories is caused by the delay in the mass-production schedule of the blue laser diode within the Sony Group, thus affecting the timely procurement of key components to be utilized in PlayStation 3″.

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…but it is actually made by Sony NEC Optiarc, but that is definitely a good thing. The drive boasts with recording speed figures: 18x for a single layer DVD and also a promise to record some 16x media at this speed. The DVD-RAM will fly at 12x and dual layer DVD’s at 8x, and so does +RW. The -RW is recorded at 6x and the legacy CD-R format at 48x.

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Spiralfrog is offering 300,000 tracks for nothing. So what’s the catch? Spiralfrog’s take on offering free music is that it will make money through advertising; users will have to sit through 90 seconds of adverts before downloading each song. The downloaded material will last for only six months. Spiralfrog tracks will not be compatible with Apple’s phenomenally popular iPod. So the tracks are not “absolutely free” and the service may be a little disappointment for the iPod users.

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