DivX, Inc. announced that Philips will introduce the DivX Plus HD playback feature in its next generation of Blu-ray products to be launched in early 2010. According to the statement, Philips’ new line of Blu-ray players will be able to playback DivX Plus HD video using the MKV container, providing consumers with a true cinematic …
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DIGITIMES reports that Royal Philips Electronics has reduced the patent royalty it charges CMC Magnetics and Ritek on blank CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs.
The MEDIA-TECH Association issued a statement to help explain Philips Electronics’ latest interim license program for Blu-ray Disc replicators.
What’s the best way to label a disc — marker? sticker? printer? The inventive folks at Hewlett-Packard think they have the answer with LightScribe, promising slick labels with fewer hassles. But does HP’s LightScribe live up to the hype?
Imation’s RipGO! has a lot going for it as a portable external recorder for laptop use. Road warriors currently lacking CD-R capability should give it serious consideration as a convenient, lightweight traveling companion.
Iomega, one of the last bastions of removable magnetic storage, has now announced plans to offer CD-R and CD-RW products.
As the first generation of DVD-ROM drives ushered in a brand-new day in high-density optical media storage, the same drives seemed to spell doom for die-hard CD-R users, who harbored a well-founded fear that they might have to abandon their investments in CD-R hardware and media and migrate to the new technology.
Light finally shines at the end of the tunnel for CD-Erasable (CD-E) with formal market delivery anticipated at the November COMDEX exhibition in Las Vegas.
Now just a darned minute! Wasn’t the new high-density DVD/DVD-ROM specification supposed to be backwards compatible? Wasn’t it implied that DVD drives could play existing CD-Recordable discs?
While by no means the last word in CD-Recordable, Hewlett-Packard’s CD-Writer 4020i is none the less a significant step forward in the evolution of CD recorders from specialized tools to everyday peripherals.
Hewlett-Packard Company announced its new 5.25-inch, half-height (HH) SureStore CD-Writer 4020i CD-Recorder and software bundle ($1,249).