Taiwanese DVD-R disc makers have increased production capacity in anticipation of a market recovery, and second-tier manufacturers have cut unit...

Media powerhouse Vivendi Universal and consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia said Friday they will work together to develop anti-piracy technology...

Speaking in a city where hawkers sell DVDs of pirated Hollywood movies for a dollar, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans...

Maxtor(r) Corporation (NYSE: MXO) today announced it is shipping its next generation SCSI hard disk drive for customers requiring large...

atsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced that it will launch its first Hi-Fi VHS video deck called NV-HVH1 with a...

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) said Thursday it has worked out criteria for notifying consumers that music compact...

The Orange Book Part II or System Description CD Write Once (CD-WO) specifies the CD-WO disc format. The name CD-R...

Vivastar is adding to its DVD technology range: from now on, the Swiss company will also be supplying its own...

CD-ROM drive contract manufacturers, already beset with slim profit margins, are bracing for further price cuts amid price drops in...

AOpen, bolstered by strong optical drive sales, reported first-quarter revenues of NT$4.775 billion and estimated pre-tax profits at NT$1.8 to...

Authorities confiscated more than 35,000 pirated compact discs, DVDs and videotapes from stores in the capital last month, an official...

Sharp announced today a new optical IC chipset (codename: GA100T8R6MZ) that is capable of 60x CD-R, 60x CD-ROM and 16x...

Today we post the world's first review for Pioneer's latest DVD-R/RW recorder. The Pioneer DVR-A04 offers DVD-R among with CD-R/RW...

IBM Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. are to pool their hard disk drive businesses into a company majority owned by Hitachi...

Samsung posted today the full specs for SW-240B. It supports 40x writing, 12x re-write, 40x reading and 8MB buffer... Key...

Hitachi, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba today announced the formation of a working group to...

The number of DVDs replicated in North America will surpass the one-billion mark later this year, marking the fastest time...

After closing last year with a record loss, Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV reported a net profit for its first fiscal...

Record executives on Tuesday will gather at a plush London hotel to release annual global music sales figures, but this...

YAMAHA Corporation, one of the first producers of high speed CD ReWritable drives, reduces per 06 March 2002 the prices...