Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP announced that it continues to pursue evidence in a nationwide class action lawsuit accusing large manufacturers of optical disc drives used in CD, DVD and Blu-ray players of price fixing. According to the statement, the civil suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in California (April 6, 2010, docket …
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Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) announced the introduction of its first 3D-ready laptop for the U.S. market. According to the statement, the Satellite A665 3D Edition laptop features a 15.6-inch diagonal TruBrite widescreen LCD display with LED backlighting and a 120Hz refresh rate. NVIDIA 3D Vision software and hardware technologies drive the stereoscopic 3D experience, …
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Toshiba Corporation announced a new notebook PC that will play Blu-ray 3D discs as well as other 3D content. According to the statement, Toshiba’s dynabook TX/98MBL features a 15.6-inch wide LCD display with LED backlighting and a 120Hz scan rate. It employs WinDVD BD for Toshiba to play Blu-ray 3D discs as well as NVIDIA …
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Sonic Solutions announced that it is powering access to a broad library of video entertainment on Toshiba’s recently released Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, the BDX2500 and the BDX2700.
Blockbuster Inc. announced that its BLOCKBUSTER On Demand service is now available through the latest Toshiba Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. According to the statement, BLOCKBUSTER On Demand is currently accessible on Toshiba’s new Blu-ray models, the BDX2500 and the BDX2700. Plans are also in place for the service to become available on future Toshiba Blu-ray …
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Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. announced the availability of its latest Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, the BDX2500 ($179.99) and BDX2700 ($249.99).
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that on January 15, 2010, Toshiba, the authorized licensor for DVD6C, filed demands for arbitration to collect royalties allegedly due under DVD6C patent licenses with Duplium Corporation (Canada), Advanced Duplication Services LLC (USA), MAF Diskettes s.r.l. (Italy) and Bestdisc Technology Corporation (Taiwan).
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that it has terminated its patent license agreement with Infodisc Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) effective as of April 15, 2010.
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.
Toshiba Corporation announced that the DVD Consortium is expanding its membership and changing its name to the DVD Forum.
Toshiba Corporation announced that the DVD Forum has completed the format specifications for DVD-RAM and DVD-R.