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Thursday, May 02, 2013
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES sold a new BLULINE II replication machine to Memory-Tech Corporation, the largest independent disc manufacturer in Japan.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Kaleidescape today debuted the Internet delivery of Blu-ray quality movies. Now Kaleidescape owners can download movies from the Kaleidescape Store with audio and video quality equal to Blu-ray Disc.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
In a move that could give the final hit in the almost dead optical storage and Blu-ray disc market for PCs, TDK has decided to withdraw from the Blu-ray disc business by March 2014.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
RITEK recently launched RITEK M-DISC DVD, an optical disc drive claimed to have a lifetime of up to 1,000 years.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
AUstralian authorities on 12 April seized an estimated 80,000 High Quality Counterfeit (HQC) 'Region 4' movie DVDs and TV box sets as well as artwork and promotional inserts.
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Monday, April 08, 2013
Sony and France-based Dalet Digital Media Systems have pertnered to develop extensible high-capacity archiving solutions, named Optical Disc Archive for the video and broadcasting industries.
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013
The latest version of Cyberlink's popular PowerDVD media player offers comprehensive options to enjoy media across all digital devices, includes support for 4K ultra HD, converts videos beyond Blu-ray quality, and is UltraViolet ready.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
ASUS is releasing the SDRW-08U5S-U external DVD writer, an
ulta-slim (13mm) portable optical drive.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
UCLA researchers have developed a technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors - devices that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Sony has officially closed its Sony Opitarc optical disk division this month.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Nero has released a new version of its Nero 12 and Nero 12 Platinum multimedia suites, expanding mobile device support for video converting and bringing greater customisation and control to video editing.
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Primera Technology today announced the availability of its new
DL500 Durable Label Printer.
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Later this month Pioneer will release the BDR-XU02JM portable BDXL
burner in Japan. The slim and lightweight drive has a slot-in disc
loading mechanism and has been designed to complement the new
MacBooks.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Illegal music file sharing declined significantly in 2012 due to increased availability of free and subscription music streaming sites, according to new data from The NPD Group.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) has terminated its Patent License Agreement with Ontario-based Premium Disc Corp. for nonpayment of royalties.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
UltraViolet in the coming months will be available in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand, said Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Cyberlink is offering its flagship video editing software PowerDirector 11 at a significant discount, as soon as you agree to switch from using competitive software solutions including the Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Movie Studio and Pinnacle Studio.
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Despite rapid device adoption, and new forms of movie distribution, video discs are by far the largest source of Hollywood's home-video revenue, the NPD Group says.
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Lite-On Technology has announced plans to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of Lite-On IT, the popular optical disc drive (ODD) and SSD (solid-state drive) maker.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Aleratec today introduced the new 1:3 RoboRacer DVD/CD MultiDrive SA Duplicator, a fully-automatic disc duplicator featuring three DVD/CD disc-burning drives and a 150-disc capacity.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Taiwan-based blank optical disc makers will reportedly diversify their business operations towards the production
of light guide plates (LGP), which is a core component of backlight units (BLUs) used in display panels.
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There is currently activity within the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is to bring 4K into the Blu-ray specifications, although there are some fundamental reasons why 4K may not be yet ready for primetime.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Figures published today by the British Video Association show that James Cameron's film Avatar from Twentieth Century Fox becomes the first title to sell over 1 million copies on the high definition Blu-ray Disc.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Taiwanese optical disc maker CMC Magnetics is showcasing
a 50GB dual-layer BD-rewritable (BD-RE DL) and 100GB
single-sided triple-layer BD-recordable (BD-R TL) Blu-ray
disc at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, CyberLink offers previews of PowerDVD Touch, a touch-optimized Microsoft Windows 8 desktop media playback software solution.
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Monday, January 07, 2013
Millenniata will offer a Blu-ray version of its MDisc high-quality optical disc in June.
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Friday, January 04, 2013
CyberLink will showcase its ecosystem of video and
photo creation and sharing solutions at CES event in
Las Vegas from January 8-11.
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
Samsung announced today its newest ultra-slim portable
DVD writer, the SE-218CB optical disc drive (ODD) with
a sleeker design and mobile size for Ultrabook users
on-the-go.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Teac recently introduced a cost-effective 12x Blu-ray disc burner, the BD-W512GSA.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
The optical disc industry is experiencing a reshuffle which will continue into the first half of 2013 due to makers in Japan, as well as second- and third-tier Taiwan-based makers stopping production during 2012.
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Big deals and deep discounts enticed U.S. consumers to shop this past Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend, according to a recent Nielsen Home Entertainment survey.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
The UK government has recently announced changes to how it will enforce copyright that will allow individuals to reproduce copyrighted material for personal use.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Best Buy has made available a software that allows users to "convert" their DVDs to cloud hosted UltraViolet versions at home.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
The total number of Blu-ray Disc (BD) 3-D titles in the U.S. market has grown by more than a factor of five within two years since the format started in 2010.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Last week, officers from the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate have seized fake CDs with a street value of over £245,000.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Both CD and DVD recordable media technology revenue decreased in 3Q12 from 2Q12, a report from the Santa Clara Consulting Group found.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
LiteOn IT plans to adjust its production of optical disc drives following the decreasing global demand and Sony Optiarc's decision to exit the global ODD market.
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Epson will release its new flagship PP-100IIBD Blu-ray disc publishing system in January, powered by Pioneer's archival-grade Blu-ray disc drives.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
TDK has completed development of the LTO Ultrium 6, the sixth-generation LTO (Linear Tape-Open) Ultrium format data cartridges and as of November 20th the cartridges passed the verification testing by the LTO Compliance Verification Entity (CVE). TDK has now started production of the LTO Ultrium Generation 6 data tape cartridges.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Kaleidescape today announced a service that enables the digital delivery of movie purchases over the Internet with video and audio quality equal to Blu-ray Disc and DVD.
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Pioneer plans to release later this month in Japan the BDR-XU02J, a
highly-portable, slot-loading 6x BDXL burner.
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Thursday, December 06, 2012
The latest company to join the One-Blue Blu-ray Disc (BD) product licensing program is Taiwan-based
U-Tech Media Corp.
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CyberLink today launched PowerProducer 6 Blu-ray and DVD disc authoring software.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Figures released by the British Video Association signal that Blu-ray Discs are set to be a Christmas favourite, as the number of DVD shoppers who trade up to Blu-ray Disc are expected to double during the gifting season.
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IO Data Device Inc. will release three new BD burners in Japan in late December: the SATA BRD-S16X, the external USB 3.0 BRD-UT16X and the portable BRP-U6DM2
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Optical disc drive vendors are expected to replace the
half-height (H/H) optical disc drives (ODDs) used in desktop PCs with slim-type ODDs used in notebooks by the end of 2013.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Buffalo next month will release the first 16x Blu-ray disc burners in Japan - the external USB 3.0 BRXL-16U3 and the SATA BRXL-16FBS-BK models.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
AudioDev has appointed Marco Lischnewski as new CEO, replacing Peter Falk who has been in charge of AudioDev since 2009.
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Imation is shipping the next generation in the Ultrium format of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology ? certified LTO 6 Ultrium tape cartridges.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
German software manufacturer Ashampoo today released the 12th edition of Ashampoo Burning Studio.
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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES and Doug Carson & Associates, Inc. (DCA) have reached an agreement on licensing the Optical Disc Write Strategy Technology from DCA Inc.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Two optical disc replicators, PrimeDisc Marketing Limited and Bestdisc Technology Corporation, have joined the One-Blue Blu-Ray Disc (BD) product licensing program as licensees.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Fujifilm Corp. developed a new recording method for optical discs, which takes advantage of the two-photon absorption phenomenon to apply heat-mode recording on multiple recording layers of an optical disc.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Despite the slower than expected growth in the Blu-ray disc player market, the global installed base of standalone Blu-ray Disc (BD) players will hit the 100 million unit mark by the end of 2012, according to Strategy Analytics recent forecast.
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Imation has released two new optical disc archiving products compatible with Sony's XDCAM professional systems.
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Seagate has become a member of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) an open, cross-industry consortium of movie studios and technology companies that developed and operate UltraViolet.
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Following lower than expected sales for semiconductor, solar and
optical disc machinery, German equipment manufacturer Singulus
implemented measures, which had a negative impact on the company's
key financial figures.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
CyberLink today launched an updated version of its media player, PowerDVD 12, along with new PowerDVD Mobile to ensure compatibility with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Pegasys will release the English version of their next generation MPEG video editing software, TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 4, on October 30, 2012.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Transcend today introduced its 8X slim portable CD/DVD writer, which at just 13.9 mm high, is currently the thinnest external CD/DVD writer on the market.
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Pioneer has made the world's fastest Blu-ray burner inthe U.S. with the release of the 15x BDR-2208 model.
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Pioneer will release next month in Japan the BDR-S08J Blu-ray disc drive, a high-speed BD/BDXL burner based on the BDR-208M model and capable of 15x resording with BD-R discs.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
DVD licensing firm One-Red, announced today that they extending their DVD licensing program to include DVD-software manufacturers and DVD-PC manufacturers.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Pioneer is pushing the Blu-ray disc burning speeds to their limits (or even higher?) with the release of the BDR-208XJ (BDR-208M), an internal drive that will burn BD-R disc at 15x and BDXL discs at 8x.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Blu-ray Low-To-High (LtH) discs are not recommended for data archiving as they are aging faster than the traditional Blu-ray (HtL) discs, a recent study found.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed terabyte scale optical storage medium that stores 1 to 2 terabytes of data.
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
IBM is set to release the System Storage TS1060 in November, an LTO Ultrium 6 tape drive that combines IBM tape reliability and performance.
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Monday, October 01, 2012
Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700) according to a new law applied in Japan.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Sony Music Entertainment Japan will release in December audio CDs made using the updated Blu-spec CD2 manufacturing process.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Pioneer has designed the new BDR-PR1M and BDR-PR1MA BDXL drives to offer businesses a reliable solution for their long-term archival needs using BDXL (100GB) recordable media.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Japanese companies Memory-Tech, krypton, Q-tec and Camerata Tokyo are promoting a new "format" for high-quality audio stored in Blu-ray discs.
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Nero has added the Windows 8-compatible Nero 12 to its flagship media suite range.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Hitachi has developed a method of writing and reading digital information on slivers of quartz glass, offering a reliable way to safely store data, almost for ever.
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Sony's next-generation Optical Disc Archive storage system will start shipping across Asia Pacific in October 2012.
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Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on September 20 announced it fined four optical disk drive (ODD) makers for price fixing.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
CyberLink today launched PhotoDirector 4, the latest version of its photography software. The company also today released its first professional solution for video color grading, ColorDirector.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
CyberLink's new line-up of professional products are included in the company's Director Suite.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Corel's latest digital media suite, the Roxio Creator NXT,
has been released to the stores.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Content-encoding solution providers will use Dolby Digital
Plus technology to enable high-quality multichannel audio
for the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)
UltraViolet platform through the UltraViolet Common File
Format (CFF).
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG will remain focused on its core businesses for the following years although it identifies the challenges to achieve positive full-year results for 2012.
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Monday, September 03, 2012
Lite-On IT registered net earnings of NT$704 million (US$23.5 million) in the second quarter, up 47.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), earnings per share (EPS) of NT$0.7 (US$0.02), with first-half cumulative EPS of NT$1.2 (US$0.04).
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Rovi today announced Rovi Digital Copy for Retailers, a new offering that is expected to provide consumers in Europe and the U.S. more ways to turn their physical DVD and Blu-ray Disc movie collections into virtual movie libraries.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
As part of Sony's reconstruction plan, Sony will leave the optical disc drive business by next year.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Fujitsu has developed a recycling system that collects used CDs and DVDs at Fujitsu Group recycling centers and reuses the plastic in the bodies of notebook PCs.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Professional Data Archiving Manufacturer, Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc., combines advancements with a UDO media foundation to produce new and improved high-performance data archiving solution with a 400% increase in performance and added security.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Streaming video may be cheap and convenient but consumers seem to still renting more movies via the mail and physical retailers.
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Saturday, August 04, 2012
Asus new SDRW-08D3S-U external 8X DVD writer adds instant optical media to various devices via USB 2.0 and its AV Function, including smart TVs and tablets.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The European Commission has informed thirteen companies supplying optical disk drives in the European Economic Area (EEA) of its preliminary view that they may have infringed EU antitrust rules by participating in a worldwide cartel.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media will launch this month Verbatim brand barrier-free CD-Rs that surface Braille and can be read with tactile impression.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Beginning July 1, 2012, One-Red LLC will become the
authorized entity to administer a new joint DVD Disc and
DVD Player license program on behalf of its licensors,
which include Koninklijke Philips, Sony, Pioneer and LG
Electronics.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Blu-ray Disc players, which so far were used for playback HD movied stored in optical discs, are also increasingly used to access subscription video-on-demand content, according to new data released from The NPD Group.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The new PX-612U is an external DVD burner by Plextor compatible with TVs.
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
Disney seems to be the latest studio to force movie rental services such as Netflix to wait before buying their films.
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Panasonic has developed a lateral hybrid three-wavelength semiconductor laser, which simplifies the optical system of an optical pickup by laterally arranging the laser emitting points of blue-violet, red and infrared semiconductor lasers.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Cinram announced today that Cinram Optical Discs SAS, a French subsidiary engaged in DVD replication, has filed for insolvency.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
RITEK will showcase its complete series of Blu-ray discs at Computex, Taipei, from June 5th through June 9th.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination
Center, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI), has joined together with the FBI and six major
American movie studios to launch an updated anti-piracy
warning to be displayed on new movie releases.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Later this month, Japanese Buffalo Inc., will release the portable "BRXL-PC6VU2" BDXL burner in Japan.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
ASUS has released the SBW-06C2X-U BDXL burner, a stylish external drive capable of burning blu-ray discs at 6x.
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