Panasonic Corporation announced two new DIGA Blu-ray Disc recorders for the French market, the DMR-BW880 and DMR-BW780 (successors to the DMR-BW850 and DMR-BW750).
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Sony Optiarc Launches BDX-S500U 6x Blu-ray Disc Writer
Sony Optiarc Europe GmbH announced its new BDX-S500U 6x Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer. According to the statement, the external mobile BDX-S500U features a tray-loading design as well as USB 2.0 interface and writes BD-R SL discs at up to 6x speed, BD-R DL discs at 4x, DVD±R SL at 8x, DVD±R DL at 4x, DVD-RAM [...]
Sony Optiarc Unveils BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer
Sony Optiarc Europe GmbH announced its new BWU-500S 12x Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer. According to the statement, the internal half-height (HH) BWU-500S features a SATA interface and writes BD-R SL discs at up to 12x speed, BD-R DL discs at 8x, DVD±R SL at 16x, DVD±R DL at 8x, DVD-RAM at 12x and CD-R at [...]
Panasonic Germany Unveils Blu-ray Disc Recorders
Panasonic Corporation announced two new DIGA Blu-ray Disc recorders for the German market, the DMR-BS885 and DMR-BS785 (successors to the DMR-BS850 and BS750).
Roxio Goes 3D With Creator 2011
Roxio announced the release of Creator 2011, a digital media suite offering a comprehensive feature set for capturing, editing, creating, and sharing personal 3D photos, videos, and projects.
CyberLink Launches Power2Go 7
CyberLink Corp. announced Power2Go 7, the latest version of its optical disc burning software. According to the statement, Power2Go can burn any media to any disc, including Blu-rays, DVDs and CDs, as well as the latest BDXL format that holds up to 128GB of data on a single disc.
Verbatim Showcases Storage at IFA 2010
Verbatim Europe announced that it will showcase its latest storage innovations at this year’s IFA, being held September 3-8, 2010 in Berlin. According to the statement, this includes 100GB triple layer BXDL Blu-ray media, USB 3.0 SuperSpeed portable hard drives for Mac users, new MediaShare centralized home network hard drive storage, the Clip-it USB Drive [...]
Mitsubishi Unifies Under Verbatim Brand
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. (MKM) announced that it will unify all of its recordable and rewritable optical disc products (BD, DVD, CD) under its Verbatim brand.
Specs Approved for 128GB BDXL Blu-ray Discs
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that it has finalized and released the specifications for BDXL, a new multi-layer writable Blu-ray Disc (BD) format with up to 128GB of capacity. According to the statement, with the completion and approval of the specifications (BD-R v.3 and BD-RE v.4), manufacturers can now obtain licensing information and license [...]
Buffalo Launches 12x External Blu-ray Writer
Buffalo Technology announced its new MediaStation 12x External USB 3.0 Blu-ray Writer. According to the statement, this new MediaStation drive offers 12x Blu-ray write speeds making it suitable for users who want optimal playback and writing performance of Blu-ray discs, DVDs, or CDs on their PCs or notebooks or for those who want to archive [...]
Hie Electronics Granted Patent for Blu-ray TeraStack
Hie Electronics announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent covering its TeraStack Solution. According to the statement, Hie Electronics was granted patent number US 7,673,309 for the unique internal robotic system that allows its TeraStack Solution to retrieve archived data from multiple banks of Blu-ray discs in the [...]
Lite-On Europe Unveils 12X Blu-ray Writer
Lite-On Europe announced its new 12X Blu-ray Disc (BD) writer, the iHBS212. According to the statement, this PC-compatible Blu-ray writer is capable of recording and playing back the most popular media formats including Blu-ray, DVD and CD. In addition to writing BD-R single-layer (SL) discs at 12X, the iHBS212 writes double-layer (DL) BD-R media at [...]
Panasonic UK Unleashes New Blu-ray and DVD Recorders
Panasonic UK Ltd. announced that it has released two new DIGA Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorders in the UK (DMR-BW880EB, BW780EBK) as well as a DVD Recorder with Freeview HD (DMR-XW380).
Pioneer BDR-205 Firmware Update
Pioneer Electronics has released new firmware for its current 12x BDR-205 and BDR-S05 Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorders.
BDXL Extends Recordable Blu-ray Disc Capacity to 128GB
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that it expects to release in the next few months specifications for High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs (BDXL) and Intra-Hybrid discs (IH-BD). According to the statement, the BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, [...]
