Falcon Technologies Readies Optical Disc Production
Falcon Technologies International (FTI) announced its presence and that it is gearing up to produce optical discs at its new factory in Ras Al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates).
Archive of posts tagged CD-R
Lite-On SOHW-1213S Review
Attractively priced at $119, Lite-On’s SOHW-1213S isn’t the swiftest, most featured, or most technically advanced recorder on the market but still offers faster-than-8X DVD+R performance and furious CD operation for the budget-conscious.
Primera Accent Disc Laminator Review
Until Primera’s Accent Disc Laminator came along, desktop disc decoration had seen and done it all. The Accent raises the stakes for inkjet-printable label durability, appearance, and visual authentication. A specialized device best left for volume-batch production situations, the Accent introduces useful and innovative capabilities, and challenges the industry to take note.
OSTA Publishes Understanding Recordable and Rewritable DVD White Paper
The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) announced it has published a new 49-page white paper entitled “Understanding Recordable and Rewritable DVD,” authored by Hugh Bennett.
Our Discs are Sealed
Isn’t it amazing that for all of the careful design they put into CD and DVD technology, the engineers never stopped to consider how discs might be labeled on the desktop? Thankfully, the marketplace has come to the rescue with its own solutions—some good, some not so good, but all ingenious in their own regard.
Fujifilm Increases CD-R and CD-RW Disc Prices
Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. announced that it will increase the prices of its blank CD-R and CD-RW discs by 10 to 15 percent.
Rimage Perfect Image Protégé II DVD Review
With its well-balanced ratio of recorders to printers, excellent incremental scalability, the attractive redundancy of multiple optional autoloaders, versatile multiplatform control software, and its peerless DVD label output, the Protégé II is a genuine digital studio thoroughbred.
Multi-Family DVD Recorders – A Cop Out
“At the fork in the road — take it.” This classic Yogi Berra malapropism best explains manufacturers’ approach in introducing DVD recorders to write not only DVD+R and DVD+RW discs, but also rival DVD-R and DVD-RW formats.
Mitsui Advanced Media Sheds U.S. CD-R Plant, Becomes MAM-A
On June 16, Mitsui Advanced Media Inc. made a low-key announcement that Computer Support Italcard s.r.l. (CSI) had acquired a majority position in the longstanding CD-R company now to be known as MAM-A, Inc. Located in Colorado Springs, Mitsui Advanced Media was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese industrial giant Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
DVD-9 to 5: The New Copying Reality
How hard is it to copy a DVD movie? Not as difficult or time-consuming as some make it out to be — and it’s getting easier and more convenient every day.
OSTA Publishes Understanding CD-R and CD-RW White Paper
The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) announced it has published a new 50-page white paper entitled “Understanding CD-R and CD-RW,” authored by Hugh Bennett.