Fox Embraces DVD Manufacturing on Demand

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that it has entered into a DVD manufacturing on demand (MOD) agreement with Allied Vaughn. According to the statement, this arrangement will allow Fox to to expand retail distribution of MGM’s Limited Edition Collection of previously-unreleased DVD titles. Initially, more than fifty films will be included with plans to …

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Taiyo Yuden Slashes Optical Disc Production

Some sad but not unexpected news today. Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. announced a number of severe actions aimed at dealing with eroding market conditions and an “extraordinary loss” within its recordable optical disc group. According to the statement, Taiyo Yuden will cut back its production of CD-R, DVD±R and BD-R media from a current level …

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Microtech Licenses Qflix for On-Demand DVD

Sonic Solutions announced that Microtech Systems has licensed Sonic’s latest Qflix technology that supports DVD-9 (dual-layer) recording in addition to DVD-5 (single-layer), to integrate into Microtech’s Xpress XP automated disc publishing system.