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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:03:49 +0000 Media Autoloaders, Blank CD Media, CD Duplication Primera’s Rent & Rip Program For CD To MP3 Ripping
The new program allows users to rent a Primera Bravo SE Disc Publisher along with the company’s PTRip software for just $299 per week. The Bravo SE’s built-in robotics will load personal music CDs into the unit and rip tracks into Apple iTunes or Windows Media Player – automatically and “hands-free.” Anyone who owns a [...] | Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:22:18 +0000 Blu-Ray News, DVD Duplication, CD Duplication LG Electronics Super-Fast 6X Blu-ray Disc Writers
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 [...] | Tue, 20 May 2008 04:10:09 +0000 DVD Duplication New Plextor PX-820SA 20X DVD Super Multi-Drive
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 [...] | Thu, 15 May 2008 18:43:10 +0000 Blank DVD Media, Blank CD Media, DVD Duplication, CD Duplication FTI Achieves 300 Year Archival Lifespan For CD-R Media
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 [...] | Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:52 +0000 Media Autoloaders, DVD Duplication 22X DVD Writers Available From Sony and BenQ Later This Year
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 [...] | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:19:19 +0000 Blank DVD Media, Duplicator Towers, Printing Equipment, DVD Duplication Aleratec Offers Color Coded DVD-R for Lightscribe Duplicators
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 [...] | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:24:15 +0000 Media Autoloaders, DVD Duplication World’s First Integrated Holographic Data Recording System
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 [...] | Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:02:57 +0000 Media Autoloaders, HD DVD News Finally, A Betamax To HD-DVD Converter!
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 [...] | Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:17:18 +0000 Media Autoloaders, Blu-Ray News, Printing Equipment, DVD Duplication Mac Users Now Able to Burn Blu-ray with Primera
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 [...] | Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:11:36 +0000 Blank DVD Media, DVD Duplication New Hexalock DVD Media Copy Protection Software
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 [...] |
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