Tag archive: Wolfgang Schlichting

In response to growing industry support for the Blu-ray Disc standard, the 13 members of the Blu-ray Disc Founders today announced plans to create the Blu-ray Disc Association ("BDA").  The new entity will establish format standards and promote and further develop business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc (BD) - the next generation optical disc for storing high-definition movies, photos and other digital content. The Blu-ray Disc… Read More

With the PX-712SA, users can record a full DVD in less than 6 minutes at a burst rate of 16.5 MB per second, allowing them to create, edit, and share customized DVDs faster than ever before. The new internal drive is the first Plextor product to feature an integrated Serial ATA connection, enabling OEMs and System Integrators to leverage the benefits of Serial ATA. Serial ATA, which extends bandwidth to 150 MB/sec, is an evolutionary… Read More

Plextor Corp. today announced the PX-712SA DVD±R/RW drive with support for high-speed 12X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R recording. With the PX-712SA, users can record a full DVD in less than 6 minutes at a burst rate of 16.5 MB per second, allowing them to create, edit, and share customized DVDs faster than ever before. The new internal drive is the first Plextor product to feature an integrated Serial ATA connection, enabling OEMs and System… Read More

Demonstrating its technical leadership in the emerging Serial ATA (SATA) market, Plextor Corp. today announced the PX-712SA DVD±R/RW drive with support for high-speed 12X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R recording. With the PX-712SA, users can record a full DVD in less than 6 minutes at a burst rate of 16.5 MB per second, allowing them to create, edit, and share customized DVDs faster than ever before. The new internal drive is the first Plextor… Read More

NEC has developed technology to record and read both current and next-generation DVDs with a single optical head, adding to the momentum of blue-laser DVD products. NEC said on Thursday that its new optical head combines both blue and red lasers. Red lasers are used in today's DVD players and recorders. Blue lasers can be used to read and write greater amountsof data on discs, according to NEC. The Japan-based computer maker also… Read More

Its latest duo of high-speed burners underlines Sony's DVD drive ingenuity and market leadership. In fact, The NPD Group ranked Sony number one (based on dollar market share) for DVD burner sales in the combined U.S. retail and reseller markets during August 2003. Sony's award-winning Dual RW drives, which started shipping a year ago this month, were the PC industry's first combination drives to support the DVD+RW, DVD+R,… Read More

But the technology comes with another, less appealing feature: a confusing format war, in which customers have to choose between competing, incompatible standards. To add to the confusion, the namesof the two leading formats — DVD+R and DVD-R — are similar. So far, it's an even fight. Of the 7.5 million blank DVDs sold last year — compared with 1.6 billion blank CDs — the research firm NPD Group estimated that… Read More

The change is being seen by industry watchers as Apple's way of straddling the fence, pleasing all customers and preparing for a day when dual-format drives will be standard fare in both Macintosh and Windows PCs. With the addition of the 17-inch flat-panel iMac, introduced this past January, Apple has switched to a dual-format DVD drive, or what is known in the computer industry as a 'SuperMulti' component. The 15-inch… Read More