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Media maker Maxell announced today that it will beging shipping both BD-R (write once) and BD-RE (rewriteable) 8cm blank Blu-ray media for the camcorder market later this month. The discs will offer 7.5 GB of capacity, enough for approximately 60 minutes of full HD video at 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution. “The market for HD content has significant upside, and we believe that as people see their home movies with richer texture, images… Read More

Consumer options for data back-up just got a little bigger, literally. Maxell announced Friday that it will roll out its new 160GB DAT tapes in May. Although they won’t set any size records in the general world of tape storage, the new tapes will have the largest capacity for the DDS format, which is commonly considered to be an affordable entry-level tape system. Maxell achieved the boost in capacity by widening the tape and… Read More