Pioneer Updates Blu-ray Disc Drive Utility

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 25 January 2024, 10:43 am

Pioneer Corporation announced the latest update to its Blu-ray Disc (BD) drive utility software.

Pioneer Unveils Archival Blu-ray Recorder and Discs

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 March 2023, 9:56 am

Pioneer Corporation announced its new archival Blu-ray recorder (BDR-WX01DM) and compatible BD-R discs (IPS-BD11J03P).

Baring Private Equity Asia to Acquire Pioneer Corporation

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 7 December 2018, 9:55 am

Pioneer Corporation announced it is being acquired by Baring Private Equity Asia for roughly $900 million (USD).

Pioneer to Sell Most of AV Equipment Business to Onkyo

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 24 June 2014, 7:58 am

Pioneer Corporation announced that it will sell the majority of its audiovisual equipment business to Onkyo Corporation and the Baring Private Equity Asia investment fund.

Pioneer Cut Costs, Axes 800 Jobs

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 February 2013, 9:57 pm

Pioneer Corporation announced it plans to cut costs and eliminate roughly 800 jobs in Japan, as well as review its optical disc and other businesses with an eye toward achieving further savings.

OPARG Champions Optical Disc Archiving

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 10 October 2012, 4:22 pm

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (Verbatim), Pioneer Corporation and Victor Advanced Media (JVC) announced they have established the Optical Archive Group (OPARG) to promote the use of BD-R and DVD-R discs for archival data storage.

Pioneer Unveils BDR-PR1 Archival Blu-ray Writer

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 24 January 2012, 4:41 pm

Pioneer Japan announced its new BDR-PR1 Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorder, which offers a number of professional-level features aimed at satisfying the needs of the data archiving market.