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This new media has a capacity of 2.6GB, giving video camera owners the ability to record 54 minutes of video in SP mode. Mitsubishi has not announced a price. However, the media is expected to run about 3000 Yen. If you'd like to read more, the entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Mitsubishi chemical media Ltd. (The headquarters: the Tokyo Minato Ward and president: Otsuka heavy morality) begins two one side layers DVD-R for DL (The write-once type: for one time recording) as 8cmDVD disk for the video camera, and it begins to appear in the world and sales will begin in the end of August this year. Moreover, it will begin to sell it at the same time by one one side layer 8cmDVD-R and as much as one one side layer 8cmDVD-RW widely widespread for the video camera.
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The PLEXERASER takes about three minutes to destroy a CD or single layer DVD. As you might imagine, it takes twice as long to destroy a double layer disc. And no, the PLEXERASER cannot be used to record discs, only destroy them.
Plextor Japan plans to ship the PLEXERASER PX-OE100E in mid September for about 25,000 Yen ($218US). No word yet on whether or not it will make its way to the US. As we find out more, we'll let you know. In the mean time, more information can be found on Plextor's website. Add a comment
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The three patents named in the complaint are: U.S. patent 4,847,132, which covers a protective layer for a reversible data storage disc; patent 5,790,487, which relates to optical data recording media; and patent RE 37,185, which covers an optical recording head for use in an optical disc data storage system.If you'd like to read more, the entire article can be found here. Add a comment
Panasonic asserts that CMC and two U.S. affiliates, Hotan and KHypermedia, infringed on all three patents. The company is asking the court for damages relating to the infringement and an injunction against further infringement.
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Leading Taiwan-based optical disc drive (ODD) makers retain good chances to obtain additional OEM orders for producing consumer DVD burners, such as JVC CU-VD10 Everio Share Station (direct DVD-video burner) and Sony VRD-MC1 (external DVD+RW/-RW burner), from Japanese brands, according to industry sources in Taiwan.If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
Consumer DVD burners can be used to directly record digital video and photos from a camcorder or another source onto a DVD disc without being connected to a PC. Considered as more profitable than PC-use DVD recording drives, the consumer burners are currently priced at US$200-300, the sources indicated. Sony VRD-MC1 is already produced by Lite-On IT, the largest maker of optical disc drives in Taiwan, on an OEM basis, the sources pointed out.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) on July 26 announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, charging that DVD discs made by CMC Magnetics Corporation (CMC), a Taiwanese disc manufacturer, infringe Matsushita Electric's patents. The lawsuit also names two US affiliates of CMC, Hotan Corporation and KHypermedia Corporation.It will be interesting to see how this turns out. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
