Topic: News

Blu-Ray drives for the Playstation 3 will cost Sony a small fortune. It turns out that at the release of the console in the first half of 2006, Sony will have to pay more than $100 (£54) per drive it builds in Playstation 3.

Mobile phones capable of transmitting data at blistering speeds have been demonstrated by NTT DoCoMo in Japan. At this rate, an entire DVD could be downloaded within a minute!

Three west London men are due in court today after police seized more than 50,000 fake DVDs worth about £150,000.

The Recordable DVD Council (RDVDC) unveiled the world's fastest Rewritable DVD products at its IFA press conference. The new 16X DVD-RAM products are being displayed at the RAM Promotion Group "RAMPRG" exhibit #221 of Hall 1.1 at IFA.

Toshiba may not launch HD DVD products until 2006, breaking its previously stated deadline for the introduction of the technology.

Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.

Sales of Media Center PCs have skyrocketed since July 2005 according to a recent study by Current Analysis. For the week ending August 20, 2005, Media Center PCs accounted for 42.60% of all desktop personal computers sold in the US retail market, up from 16.28% for the week ending July 2, 2005.

The world's first 5 1/4 inch PC drive HR-1100A for HD-DVDs from NEC will be available from October onwards. The HD DVD drive plays back HD-DVDs, DVDs and CDs. This is all down to the optical head that was developed by NEC which can read blue, red and ultra-violet light.

Ritek went from a gross operating loss of NT$139 million (£2.4m) in the first quarter of this year to gross operating profits of NT$526 million (£9m) last quarter, according to the company.

Press Release: Primera Technology's first tower duplicator, the DUP-07 burns seven CDs or DVDs at a time from one master drive. Coupled with an optional CD/DVD printer, the DUP-07 is a great fit for worship centers, live concerts and other events where discs are needed fast.

Plasmon has developed a new optical disc for compliance-based systems that allows selected data to be physically destroyed on the disc while leaving other data intact, the company said Monday.

Ahead of the DisplayForum HDTV (High Definition Television) 2005 conference being held in Berlin in September, Sky TV (UK) has announced provisional details of the channels in its HDTV launch line-up, scheduled for some time in 2006.

Recent figures from leading European distributors and independent retailers confirm that Datawrite’s Titanium DVD-R 8x is the best selling disc available in the UK, beating all other brands 5-1 in market sales.

Press Release: Rimage has launched its first desktop CD/DVD publishing model - the Rimage 360i - into the UK market. The Rimage 360i, with a list price of £1595, can burn and label 25 CDs or DVDs an hour, and is compact enough to sit easily on a desk, so is perfect for any small business with a need for high quality disc production.

Press Release: Roxio have announced Toast 7, the 'most significant upgrade ever' to its industry-leading Mac CD & DVD burning suite. Toast 7 will be publicly available direct from Roxio starting August 31 and in stores in early September.

A street trader the authorities could not curb is banned from selling in London - and has been jailed for six months.

CMC Magnetics and Ritek will not be substantially hit by the reduced supply of DVD disc dye from Orgchem Technologies due to fire damage at Orgchem's factory on August 15, according to the two companies.

BenQ plans to offer blue-laser format DVD-ROMs drives based on the Blu-ray platform in the first or second quarter of 2006, according to associate vice president Alpha Tsai for the company's Storage Business Unit.

Sony have introduced its tenth generation of DVD burners. The internal DRU-810A and external DRX-810UL models support the industry's fastest 8X DVD+R Double Layer (DL) recording speed, and can burn up to 8.5GB of video, data, music or images on compatible media in about fifteen minutes.

A programmer called Mattan Gillon has succeeded in porting the open source x86 emulator Bochs to the Sony PSP, enabling it to run Windows 95 and Linux.