June 3rd, 2008

LG Electronics today launched its new line of optical disc drives, featuring one of the fastest Blu-ray reading and writing speeds available at a super-fast 6x.

The latest models — LG BE06, LG GBC-H20L, and LG GBW-H20L - are available now through U.S.retail stores as well as other online electronics retailers.

Unique to LG, the line offers SecurDisc capabilities, which provide data protection and content access control on all current optical formats and LightScribe technology.

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May 19th, 2008

Plextor JP wil release the DVD super multi-drive PX-820A and PX-820SA series of 20x DVD burners in Japan by the end of the month.

The super-multi DVD burners burn on DVD recordable discs at 20x, DVD-RAM at 12x, DVD+R DL/+RW at 8X, DVD-RW at 6x, CD-R at 48x and CD-RW at 32x. The drives are also capable of burning DVD-R DL media at 12x.

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May 15th, 2008

Falcon Technologies International (FTI) today introduced a complete line of Gold CD-R and DVD-R media with specially-optimized 24k Gold reflective layer designs and formulations that offer ultra-long 300 and 100 year archival lifespans, respectively, based on accelerated aging tests.

The discs’ long archival capabilities make them the ideal solutions for a wide variety of applications, including the preservation of important documents such as company and government records, photographs and video files.

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May 8th, 2008

With Samsung and LG having already launched 22x DVD burners, Sony and BenQ plan to launch competing products in July and the third quarter of 2008, respectively, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

BenQ will have Lite-On IT undertake ODM production of its 22x DVD burners, while Sony’s will be produced by either Sony NEC Optiarc, a joint venture of Sony and NEC, or an ODM/OEM maker in Taiwan or South Korea, the sources indicated.

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April 29th, 2008

Aleratec is now shipping its new Aleratec color coded duplicator grade LightScribe DVD-R recording media.

Aleratec duplicator grade LightScribe media is optimized for LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling DVD Duplicators and Publishing Systems producing the highest contrast LightScribe Direct Disc Labels and maximum yields in demanding professional disc publishing applications. The new Aleratec duplicator grade LightScribe media is produced in 5 different colors to aid in segregating and organizing different types of data or multimedia. These color-coded discs are LightScribe-ready and can be direct-to-disc LightScribe labeled in LightScribe DVD-RW drives without a printer.

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April 15th, 2008

Software Architects announced the release of its ArchivistPro Holographic Archival System for MS Windows and Linux, the first general purpose integrated holographic recording system based on the Tapestry 300r Recorder developed by InPhase Technologies.

The system provides a write once capacity of 300 Gbytes in a 5-1/4″ cartridge. The ArchivistPro software provides drive letter access reading & writing to the holographic disc, and is compatible with third party applications that support the standard Microsoft Win-32 API.

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April 2nd, 2008

Our pick for the best (and more importantly most relevant to this site) April Fool’s Day joke goes to ThinkGeek hands-down for announcing the launch of their New Betamax to HD-DVD converter.

Did you know that with the introduction of Beta hi-fi audio, the Betamax lost its slim luminance horizontal resolution advantage to VHS? And did you also know that a dual-layer HD DVD holds a maximum of 30 GB of data and a comparable Blu-ray Disc holds a maximum of 50 GB? Mere coincidence? We think not!

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April 1st, 2008

Primera Technology is announcing an agreement with Charismac Engineering, Inc. for disc burning software that runs on Apple, Inc.’s Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard called Discribe v.6.0.

This is good news to any Mac user who wants to burn blu-ray and to use Primera’s products as well. Also it is news for anyone who is familiar with earlier of versions of Discribe, as the new software is completely rewritten.

The official press release from Primera:

PLYMOUTH, MN, USA (April 1, 2008) — Primera Technology, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc duplication and printing equipment, today announced an agreement with Charismac Engineering, Inc. for disc burning software that runs on Apple, Inc.’s Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard operating system. Beginning April 1, 2008, Primera will include Charismac’s new Discribe v6.0 software in all Bravo-Series and XR-Series Disc Publishers.

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March 22nd, 2008

Hexalock, a developer of digital copy protection solutions, announced today a new copy protection technology for both data and video stored on DVD recordable discs.

The company released HexDVDR-Video, which protects against copying video DVDs and HexDVD-DATA, for protection of software and data.

According to Hexalock, HexDVDR-Video does not allow direct 1:1 copying of a DVD video disc, by forcing any copy program to stop or require extended time (multiple hours) to copy. Duplicating the complete DVD by file based copying is also not possible.

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March 13th, 2008

It’s interesting to see drive manufacturers such as Plextor producing their own CD DVD duplicator towers, but what will it mean for the formerly niche duplicator manufacturers that sell private label towers using big-name drives?

Plextor LLC today announced the immediate availability of the PlexTower series of CD/DVD disc duplication towers.

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