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The HD DVD format significantly pumped its installed base over the weekend, as dueling store clearances sold an estimated 90,000 Toshiba players, according to sources close to retailers.Blu-ray backers really need to get on the ball and cut the prices of their players. The holiday shopping season is already upon us and, with prices like this, consumers are going to go HD DVD. If you'd like to read more, the entire article can be found here. Add a comment
That tally covers Friday to Sunday sales of Toshiba’s second-generation HD-A2 model, which Wal-Mart and Best Buy sold for about $99 on Nov. 2. That’s $200 less than Toshiba’s $299 list price and $100 off widespread retail pricing of $199.
The $99 players made up most of the 90,000 units sold, a source said.
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Sony Corp wrote and read data on a medium equivalent to a seven-layer disc by using "Micro-Reflector method," a multilayer recording technology using holographic recording.If you'd like to read more, Tech-On's entire report can be found here. Add a comment
The company calculated the error rates of reproduced signals after signal conditioning such as equalizing. Until now, the company wrote and read on discs of up to four layers and announced only the eye patterns of reproduced signals.
This time, the achievement was announced at ISOM' 07, an international conference on optical memory, which took place Oct 21-25, 2007, in Singapore. At the conference, Sony made speeches about speeding up data transmission speed, improving memory density per layer and increasing the number of recording layers even more.
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Verbatim's Color-background LightScribe 16x DVD-R and DVD+R media will be available in the US starting in Q4 2007. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
Verbatim Corporation, the storage media producer known for offering the widest range of premium-quality LightScribe media, announced today the world’s first Color-background LightScribe 16x DVD-R and DVD+R media. The new 4.7GB LightScribe DVDRs are available in vibrant shades of red, orange, yellow, blue and green in addition to the original gold color. Verbatim has begun shipping them in the US market in 25-packs which include five discs of each color.
The richly colored DVDRs are produced using LightScribe Media Version 1.2 coating technology on the label side for enhanced image contrast and faster label printing. The data side of the discs incorporates the innovative technologies that deliver the premium quality features consumers have come to expect from the Verbatim brand-- high reliability, stability and longevity with high performance and broad compatibility.
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Optical disc makers CMC Magnetics and Ritek recently obtained level A laboratory certification for 4x Blu-ray Disc (BD)-R (recordable, write once) SL (single-sided single-layer) discs, according to the two companies.CMC has also developed 4x BD-R DL discs and is in the process of getting them certified. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
CMC and Ritek are keeping apace with each other in terms of their progress in R&D for blue-laser optical discs, with each having so far secured level A laboratory certification for 2x HD DVD-R SL, 1x HD DVD-RW (rewritable) SL, 2x BD-RE (rewritable) SL and 4x BD-R SL, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
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Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, and CinemaNow (www.cinemanow.com), a digital entertainment innovator delivering high-quality Hollywood movies and TV shows across multiple platforms, announced today a collaboration that will enable consumers to legally burn Internet downloaded entertainment onto protected recordable DVDs for playback on standard and high-definition players. CinemaNow is participating in Sonic's Qflix technology and Intellectual Property licensing program, which allows video entertainment to be recorded to DVD using industry approved Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption. Additionally, CinemaNow's robust library of video content will be available within Sonic's movie download application, Roxio Venue that will be distributed through Sonic's broad OEM and retail channels to provide convenient access to millions of consumers.If you'd like to read more, Roxio's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
CinemaNow will offer the largest selection of movies, TV shows, music videos and more through its online movie store within Roxio Venue and manage content licensing and delivery for consumers. Roxio Venue is now available to PC OEMs for inclusion on systems equipped with Qflix-enabled DVD burners.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has become the first in the industry to sample 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64Gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. With a sequential write speed of 100Megabyte per second (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120MBps, the SATA II SSD is poised to expand the market for solid state drives from notebook PCs to corporate servers and other high-performance storage applications.
“The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung’s cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs that are taking system performance to a whole new level of efficiency,” said Jim Elliott, director, NAND flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
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CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a leader in digital home solutions, today launched CyberLink DVD Suite 6, a complete package of retail software for playing movies, editing videos, burning and backing up data, copying and authoring discs. With the rising popularity of high-definition videos, CyberLink DVD Suite now comes in three different versions to meet the demand of a different level of digital media usage and enjoyment:CyberLink DVD Suite 6 Ultra is available now on CyberLink's web store for $129.95. The Pro and Essential versions of the suite will hit stores in December and are priced at $89.95 and $49.95 respectively. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
- DVD Suite 6 Ultra: is the ultimate pack for the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD evangelists
- DVD Suite 6 Pro: is the ideal solution for high-quality DVD burning enthusiasts
- DVD Suite 6 Essential: is the value pack for those new to digital media.
"CyberLink DVD Suite 6 combines the best line up of digital media software from CyberLink," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "It delivers leading features and advanced technologies for doing everything you could want via a user-friendly interface. CyberLink provides three options to give users the best pack suited to their digital media lifestyle."
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- LG GSA-H62N/GSA-H62L
- (tied) Lite-On DH-20A3H/DH-20A3P, Pioneer DVR-111/DVR-111D/DVR-A11 and Plextor PX-760A/PX-760SA
