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Toshiba Corporation announced today that the Company filed a lawsuit in Italy against an Italian disc replicator of DVD discs on December 27, 2007. The suit was brought to the District Court of Milan - Specialised IP Chamber against ACME S.p.A. (ACME), as a means to halt infringement a Toshiba’s DVD patent. Toshiba seeks injunctive relief and declaration that ACME is liable for damages resulting from its infringement of Toshiba’s DVD patent.If you'd like to read more, Toshiba's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Toshiba licenses patents essential for meeting DVD format specifications.1 ACME has not entered into license agreements with Toshiba or the DVD6C Licensing Group2, and has engaged in the manufacture and sales of DVD video discs in Italy without permission. Toshiba contends that ACME’s infringement of Toshiba’s patent has damaged Toshiba’s DVD-related business, and also caused damage to the legitimate and licensed DVD product manufacturing and distribution business as a whole. In filing the lawsuit, Toshiba prepares to recover monetary damages, and to secure an agreement from ACME to respect Toshiba’s intellectual property rights in future.
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While pricing and availability have not been announced, samples of Panasonic's new BD drive will be on display in January at CES. If you'd like to read more, Panasonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Due to the increasing need for data volume on personal computers and the gaining popularity of high definition digital images, the demand for Blu-ray discs and BD drives is rapidly rising. Panasonic believes the world's thinnest BD drive ideally meets these consumer trends as it also provides a high added value for notebook PCs that are also becoming thinner and lighter. Panasonic continues to bring out innovative disc drives through steady improvements in their performance and features.
Even with its 9.5 mm high thin profile, the new BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs. This feature was facilitated through perfecting technologies such as improved light usage efficiency, high-speed recording waveform and broader bandwidth of the light-receiving element.
The product is also capable of reading and writing on BD-R DL (dual layer/50GB) and BD-RE DL discs and will be compatible with future organic pigment-type BDs.
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MPEG LA, LLC, world leader in alternative one-stop patent licenses, today announced that it has commenced an action against Audiovox Electronics Corporation (“Audiovox”) for breach of contractual obligations as a Licensee to MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License (the “MPEG-2 Contract”) and 1394 Patent Portfolio License (the “1394 Contract”).MPEG LA is seeking monetary damages, an account of all products that fall under the contracts and an injunction prohibiting Audiovox from manufacturing or selling MPEG-2 and 1394 products. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
According to the complaint filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Audiovox has breached its contractual obligations by failing to report fully its manufacture or sale of products such as DVD players and digital TVs that use the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard or employ the high-speed transfer digital interface provided for in the IEEE 1394 standard, failing to make full payments for its manufacture or sale of such products, and refusing to allow an audit as permitted by the MPEG-2 Contract and 1394 Contract (collectively, “the Contracts”).
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Digital Playground founder Joone says the decision hinged on cost. “The advantage of HD DVD over Blu-ray is the cost factor, both in manufacturing and the players,” he says, adding that the rest of the porn industry is “basically behind HD DVD because of manufacturing costs. It costs a lot more to put out a title on Blu-ray.”While the image quality is the same, Digital Playground is taking full advantage of Blu-ray's extra capacity. The extras on the Blu-ray version Pirates will be in 1080p instead of the standard def content found on the HD DVD release of the movie. If you'd like to read more, the entire article can be found here. Add a comment
HD DVD has done well for Digital Playground, and the company claims to have an 80-percent share of the market for HD porn. Joone says that about one-third of the publisher’s video shipments are now HD.
So why go with Blu-ray? Joone explains, “A lot of people were emailing that bought a PlayStation and they were basically saying, ‘When are you guys going to release Blu-ray?’ They really have no preference in format yet because it’s so now. When it comes down to image quality, there is no difference between the two.”
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While RITEK may be the first company to get 16x DVD+R DL media to market, Ricoh launched their own discs back in March. If you'd like to read more, RITEK's entire announcement can be found here. Add a comment
RITEK Corporation, the global leading manufacturer of storage media, has once again outdone competitors with its outstanding technology to become the first company to launch DVD+R DL 16X. RITEK's DVD+R DL offers up to 16X of writing speed and is undoubtedly a welcoming product for modern PC users who are always concerned about speed.
Before Blu-ray discs become the next mainstream media, RITEK Corporation has offered its new DVD+R DL 16X as consumers' best solution for backups and data storage. Apart from having the advantages of large capacity of 8.5GB and the convenience of not having to change sides during the burning process, at a writing speed at 16X, it will only take 10 minutes to write 8.5GB of data on to the disc. This is equivalent to 4 hours of high-resolution DVD image; 16 hours of VHS quality image or 120 hours of MP3 music. RITEK DVD+R DL 16X offers a substantial increase in data/image/music burning speed and convenience for the consumers and it is most suitable for company or individual use when there is a need for backup for massive amount of data. With RITEK DVD+R DL 16X, the days of long waiting time for data backup are over.
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Sonic Solutions(R)(Nasdaq: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, announced today thatCMC Magnetics Corporation (TSEC: CMC), a leading optical storagemanufacturer, has signed a Qflix(TM) technology and IP licensing agreement.CMC is beginning production on Qflix DVDs, which enable the secure,on-demand recording of digitally distributed entertainment with the sameprotection as commercially mass-produced titles. CMC is currently takingorders for two versions of Qflix media expected to be in broad use nextyear. The first type will be employed by duplication system operatorsproviding custom DVD publishing services to retailers. The second type isdesigned for use in retail movie kiosks as well as in the home, where theywill enable consumers to legally record premium entertainment downloadedfrom the Internet.If you'd like to read more, Sonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
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Nero 8 has received certification for authoring and playback of writeable Blu-ray Disc Video (BDMV) titles and with the new update now supports advanced and interactive features for High Definition audio and video. The certifications were presented by Sony Corporation’s Blu-ray Disc testing center and ensure maximum compatibility with other Blu-ray devices for trouble-free operation.While the latest Nero 8 update adds these new features, you will still need to buy the Blu-ray/HD DVD Plug-in to take full advantage of them. If you'd like to read more, Nero's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
The latest update of Nero 8 also includes play back of Mini HD DVD-Video discs, and burning of HD DVD-Video onto DVD-R/RW media. Smart Encoding, a feature that detects compliant incoming data formats from AVCHD camcorders, avoids time-consuming re-encoding by skipping the recoding step for AVCHD content when the destination format is also AVCHD. Advancements in the Nero 8 home entertainment features offer even more flexibility by letting users fast forward, and pause content streamed throughout the digital home via Nero’s home media server application.
