The U.S. Department of Justice announced that an executive from Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the United States for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for the sale of optical disc drives.
Pioneer Electronics announced its new BDR-2207 5.25″ internal half-height Blu-ray BDXL recorder.
Samsung Electronics announced its new slim external SE-218BB DVD writer ($59.99), which is aimed at the Ultrabook market.
Acacia Research announced that its Optical Memory Storage subsidiary has entered into a settlement and license agreement with Moser Baer India covering a portfolio of patents that apply to rewritable phase change optical discs (CD-RW, DVD±RW, BD-RE).
hVault announced its plans to resurrect the more than decade-long development work of Inphase Technologies and market the first commercially available holographic storage system.
Rimage Corporation announced its new Blu Lock anti-rip copy protection technology at NAB Show 2012.
TDK Corporation announced that it will support Sony’s Optical Disc Archive (ODA) system, which stores up to 1.5TB per disc cartridge.
Sony announced that it plans to commercialize a next-generation optical storage system that archives up to 1.5TB per disc cartridge.
DIGISTOR (a division of Sunland International) announced that it will preview its REWIND writable Blu-ray Disc (BD) archiving software at the 2012 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 16-19 2012.
Alliance Storage Technologies (ASTI) announced a new program to upgrade end-of-service IBM 3995 Magneto Optical (MO) data libraries.
DIGISTOR (a division of Sunland International) announced that it plans to exhibit at the 2012 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 16-19 2012.