Styron LLC today announced the availability of its CALIBRE 1060 DVD polycarbonate resin in the Americas and Europe.
According to the statement, CALIBRE 1060 DVD resin offers the quality and processing characteristics of CALIBRE 1080 DVD resin with improved ductility and toughness. CALIBRE 1060 DVD resin can be used for all optical disc applications including CD, [...]
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Styron Improves Optical Disc Polycarbonate Resin
CreateSpace Gets Physical
CreateSpace announced that has joined with Anchor Bay Entertainment, Exercise TV and Gaiam, Inc. to make in-demand DVDs from popular exercise programs, personalities and trainers available to an even broader consumer audience.
According to the statement, independent fitness experts are also offering a wide range of titles to customers using the CreateSpace platform, a one-stop shop [...]
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.
RCMP Busts Pirate DVD Operation
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Federal Enforcement Section announced that it executed a search warrant at a Markham, Ontario, Canada residence where a counterfeit DVD manufacturing laboratory was located.
According to the statement, in the early morning hours of July 12, 2010, York Regional Police (YRP) were contacted by a family stating they were victims [...]
Marantz Launches UD7005 and UD5005 Blu-ray 3D Players
Marantz America announced two new Blu-ray 3D players, the UD7005 ($899), which will replace the BD7004 and be available in September and the UD5005 ($499), which replaces the BD5004 and will be available next month.
Toshiba Seeks to Collect Unpaid DVD Royalties
The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) announced that its authorized licensor, Toshiba, has filed demands for arbitration to collect royalties due under DVD6C patent licenses with Coby Electronics Co., Ltd. (Coby) (China), Quantum Optical Laboratories S.A.S. (QOL) (France), and Tonic Digital Products Limited (Tonic) (Hong Kong).
aVinci Licenses Photo Archive DVD Software to Walmart
aVinci Media Corporation announced that it signed a multi-year multi-million dollar license earlier this year to place its photo software, allowing DVD burning by customers to create photo archive and photo slideshow DVDs within minutes, in certain domestic Walmart stores.
Vinpower Launches SlimMicro Manual Tower Duplicators
Vinpower Digital announced the roll out of its SlimMicro line of compact optical disc duplicators.
According to the statement, available in CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) configurations with four or five writers, the SlimMicro offers nearly all the advanced functions commonly found on Vinpower’s larger SharkCopier duplicators including network connection, copy protection, load & copy [...]
DECE Launches UltraViolet Brand
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem LLC (DECE LLC) announced its UltraViolet consumer brand and logo.
According to the statement, UltraViolet will allow consumers to watch their digital entertainment across multiple platforms, such as connected TVs, PCs, game consoles, smartphones and tablet PCs, in an easy, consistent way. Since all UltraViolet offerings will work together, consumers will [...]
Jordan Rudess Sings Praises of Microboards G3 Disc Publisher
Microboards Technology announced that Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess has upgraded his studio with a new G3 Disc Publisher.
According to the statement, Rudess will incorporate his G3 Disc Publisher in the production of his next solo project, scheduled for release in 2011. In addition, Rudess will be burning his next and other future music projects, [...]
Netflix Slashes 285 Part-Time Jobs
According to published reports, Netflix Inc. is cutting more than 285 part-time jobs at two of its distribution centers in California.
The reports indicate that 160 workers in Fremont and 125 in Santa Ana, CA will loose their jobs as Netflix moves to automated DVD mailer processing systems.
Budco Joins DiscMail Direct Coalition
Budco announced that it is now an affiliate member of the DiscMail Direct Coalition (DMDC).
According to the statement, the DMDC’s primary objective is to create a new category of disc-based mail and to educate marketers, ad agencies and brand managers about the latest technology advancements and response rates often achieved when DVDs, Blu-ray and CDs [...]
Lite-On Launches iHAS524 24X DVD Writer with LabelTag
Lite-On announced the immediate availability of its iHAS524 internal DVD writer.
According to the statement, the iHAS524 ($39.99 MSRP) delivers a maximum write speed of 24X on select DVD recordable media, which is among the fastest available drives in the in the market. The iHAS524 also features Lite-On’s latest patented LabelTag technology, a unique disc-labeling feature [...]
MAM-A Offers Recordable CDs and DVDs Made in USA
MAM-A Inc. announced that it has expanded its made in USA recordable optical disc product line.
According to the statement, the company now offers the full range of its silver and 24kt gold archival CD-R and DVD-R/+R discs with a made in the USA option. Completion of MAM-A’s 2010 capacity expansion at its Colorado Springs manufacturing [...]
LG Electronic Chooses CyberLink PowerDVD 3D
CyberLink Corp. announced that LG Electronics will bundle CyberLink PowerDVD 3D with its 3D desktop PC systems.
According to the statement, LG Electronics’ 3D Desktop PC System comes with the performance of an Intel Core i5 processor combined with a Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 graphics card and Blu-ray or DVD optical drive. To top it off, [...]