Panasonic France Unveils Blu-ray Disc Recorders

Panasonic Corporation announced two new DIGA Blu-ray Disc recorders for the French market, the DMR-BW880 and DMR-BW780 (successors to the DMR-BW850 and DMR-BW750).

Sony Optiarc Launches BDX-S500U 6x Blu-ray Disc Writer

Sony Optiarc Europe GmbH announced its new BDX-S500U 6x Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer. According to the statement, the external mobile BDX-S500U features a tray-loading design as well as USB 2.0 interface and writes BD-R SL discs at up to 6x speed, BD-R DL discs at 4x, DVD±R SL at 8x, DVD±R DL at 4x, DVD-RAM …

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Sony Optiarc Unveils BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer

Sony Optiarc Europe GmbH announced its new BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer. According to the statement, the internal half-height (HH) BWU-500S features a SATA interface and writes BD-R SL discs at up to 12x speed, BD-R DL discs at 8x, DVD±R SL at 16x, DVD±R DL at 8x, DVD-RAM at 12x and CD-R at …

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CyberLink Launches Power2Go 7

CyberLink Corp. announced Power2Go 7, the latest version of its optical disc burning software. According to the statement, Power2Go can burn any media to any disc, including Blu-rays, DVDs and CDs, as well as the latest BDXL format that holds up to 128GB of data on a single disc.

Verbatim Showcases Storage at IFA 2010

Verbatim Europe announced that it will showcase its latest storage innovations at this year’s IFA, being held September 3-8, 2010 in Berlin. According to the statement, this includes 100GB triple layer BXDL Blu-ray media, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed portable hard drives for Mac users, new MediaShare centralized home network hard drive storage, the Clip-it USB Drive …

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Specs Approved for 128GB BDXL Blu-ray Discs

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that it has finalized and released the specifications for BDXL, a new multi-layer writable Blu-ray Disc (BD) format with up to 128GB of capacity. According to the statement, with the completion and approval of the specifications (BD-R v.3 and BD-RE v.4), manufacturers can now obtain licensing information and license …

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