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U-Tech Media, the largest maker of pre-recorded discs in Taiwan, has successfully developed and produced pre-recorded HD DVD discs, with sample products currently under certification by potential clients, according to the company.U-Tech is also developing pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs and could begin production in the first half of this year. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
The top eight Hollywood studios and some independent movie producers have only a few OEM makers, such as Austria-based Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC) and Japan-based Memory-Tech, to produce their HD DVD movie discs and are not expected to release OEM orders to new makers for the time being, U-Tech indicated. Sony DADC has three production lines with a monthly capacity of 750,000 pre-recorded HD DVD discs while Memory-Tech has invested in Shanghai United Optical Disc, for the production of such discs, industry sources in Taiwan pointed out.
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Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that Nero 7 Essentials digital media software suite has been selected as the exclusive software package bundled with ASUSTeK's new DVD-RW drives sold worldwide, beginning with the DRW-1814BL LightScribe DVD-RW drive released today.Only a 30 day trial? That's pretty chintzy considering most drives come with some sort of DVD playback software. Anyway, if you'd like to read more, Nero's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
Nero 7 Essentials, a "one stop" digital multimedia solution, provides consumers with pre-mastering, recording, packet writing, and photo management applications. In addition, ASUSTeK drive purchasers will be offered a free 30-day trial of SVCD and DVD-Video playback, authoring, and encoding applications via download from www.nero.com.
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Due to the long Chinese New Year Holiday, Taiwan optical disc makers saw their revenues drop sequentially in February, with leading players CMC Magnetics and Ritek seeing revenue drops of 21.3% and 14.0%, respectively. Second-tier players Gigastorage, Lead Data, Optodisc Technology and Princo also reported falling revenues for February.Revenue is expected to rebound but due to the price of DVD+R/-R discs, it may not reach the same levels as last year. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes Add a comment
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DVDRentalForums.com has just been launched. Due to requests from readers on WesleyTech.com, I have created a forum website that is aimed at providing a centralized location and discussion area for current DVD Rental service members, prospective members and everyone else that is interested DVD Rental service discussions.To celebrate the launch, Wes is giving away free stuff so make sure you head on over to DVDRentalForums.com and register. Add a comment
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Vivid is the world's leading film studio and produces over 60 movies a year, but this particular production has already received widespread press attention because it is the first in the adult film industry to be available in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats and is also the first high definition feature with multiple camera angle options. The film will be sold in a three-disc set including the original "Debbie Does Dallas.""Debbie Does Dallas...Again" will hit store shelves on April 18th. If you'd like to read more, Vivid's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
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The global demand for 8.5GB DVD+R/-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs, due to fast growing demand for full HD (high-definition) TV, may increase by 122% from an estimated 90 million discs in 2006 to 200 million discs in 2007, according to Japan-based market survey organization BOC at a round robin test seminar held in Taipei by the RW PPI (Re-writable Products Promotion Initiative) under the Japan-based DVD Forum on March 8.The article also points out that Blu-ray and HD DVD discs are expected to account for 2% of total disc sales in 2007 and 11% in 2011. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
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Toshiba, mainly through its US$499 HD-E1 HD DVD player, accounted for an 85% market share of next-generation blue-laser optical disc drives/players/recorders sold in Europe in January of this year, according to industry sources in Taiwan.As DigiTimes points out, this is likely to change when the PS3 launches in Europe later this month. If you'd like to read more, head on over to DigiTimes. Add a comment
Sony and Samsung Electronics, proponents of the competing Blu-ray Disc (BD) format, together accounted for the remaining 15% of the European market, the sources said, citing statistics by GfK Marketing Services. Prior to the launch of the HD-E1, Toshiba's European market share for blue-laser products in 2006 was only 58%, the sources pointed out. Though HD DVD currently has a lead in Europe, the upcoming launch there of Sony's Blu-ray equipped PS3 game console is expected to heat up competition between the two formats.
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New Medium Enterprises (NME) (OTC BB:NMEN.OB - News) today announced that it is publicly debuting its HD VMD PC products this week at MEDIA-TECH, the renowned annual conference for the packaged media manufacturing industry taking place in Barcelona, Spain.I must admit that I've really been looking forward to NME's HD VMD PC products. The ability to playback HD VMD titles using your existing hardware just sweetens the deal. If you'd like to read more, NME's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
NME's HD VMD PC technology will enable consumers to make their current PC drives compatible with VMD playback format through a simple download, and will also offer PC manufacturers VMD drives for future VMD technology formats. NME will officially demonstrate its true HD VMD 20 (GB) disc playback with an ``off the shelf'' DVD drive equipped with HD VMD PC playback software, along with its new HD VMD media player. The proprietary PC drives will go on sale in Q3 07.
