1. Pioneer And Sharp Sign Contract For Optical Disk Joint Venture
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... develop, design, manufacture and sell optical-disk products such as optical disk drives, recorders and players. Pioneer and Sharp plan to launch operations at the joint venture on October 1, 2009. Outline ...

2. Verbatim/MKM Announces Industry’s First 6x BD-R LTH Type Media
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... photo collections and business applications. The new media is scheduled for mass production this summer to ensure availability when drives and recorders that support 6X BD-R LTH Type are released in the ...

3. NEC Electronics Introduces World's First USB 3.0 Host Controller
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... as PCs, digital TVs, and DVD recorders. The new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 chip from NEC Electronics requires only 70 seconds to transfer 25 Gb of video content on a blu-ray disc, compared to 14 minutes to transfer ...

4. Fujitsu Releases New Full HD H.264/MPEG-2 Transcoder ICs
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... be used not only for non-mobile fixed electronic equipment – such as digital video recorders (DVRs) - but also in such mobile products such as notebook PCs. In addition to the transcode function, security ...

5. Sharp And Pioneer Sign Partnership Agreement to Establish Joint Venture For Optical Disk Business
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... of operations around October 1, 2009. The new company will engage in the development, design, manufacture, and sales of optical disk products, focusing on optical disk drives, recorders, and players.  ...

6. Plextor Europe To Ship PX-860 Series DVD Writers In April
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... built up an impressive range of optical and hard disk-based products. The company offers something for every requirement - from home users and small offices, up to SME users. From Blu-ray recorders (eg ...

7. Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions Team for Internet Movie Delivery
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... recorders (PVRs), set-top boxes, mobile phones and Web-connected television sets. Additionally, the two companies will make their digital libraries of mainstream content available under the Blockbuster ...

8. Seagate Expands Storage For Dish Network's Digital Video Recorders
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Seagate (NASDAQ:STX), the world leader in storage solutions, continues to provide more gigabytes for the living room, announcing that the Seagate® Showcase™ DVR storage expander is now compatible with ...

9. Blu-ray Recorders Outsell DVD Recorders In Japan
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GfK Retail and Technology announced this week that Blu-ray sales have reached record levels in Japan. Their latest sales figures revealed that unit sales of Blu-ray Disc recorders surpassed that of DVD ...

10. Blu-ray Player Prices Are Going Down for the Holiday Season
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... and FPTV, DVD players, DVD recorders, HD DVD players and recorders, standalone PVRs, AV receivers, game consoles and portable game consoles, HTIB, portable audio and video players and cameras, SLRs, and ...

11. Netflix Streaming Coming To TiVo
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... recorders (DVRs) and Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service, today announced that they are teaming up to provide Netflix and TiVo(R) Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD ...

12. Nero And TiVo Deliver The Ultimate DVR Experience On The PC
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Nero, creators of liquid media technology, and TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today the unveiling of Nero LiquidTV ...

13. Pioneer Introduces Hard Drive Equipped Blu-ray Recorders
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At a recent press conference, Pioneer introduced its first hard drive equipped Blu-ray Disc recorders. Along with support for BonusView, the 1TB BDR-WD900 and 500GB BDR-WD700 offer 1080/24p output, dual ...

14. Sony Unveils Six New Blu-ray Disc Recorders
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At a recent press event, Sony Japan unveiled its new line of Blu-ray Disc recorders. All six models feature support for BD-Live and come equipped with Sony's new CREAS chip, which upscales 8/10-bit TVs ...

15. Panasonic Announces New DIGA Blu-ray Recorders
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Panasonic sent out a press release earlier today, announcing its new DIGA Series Blu-ray Disc recorders. The recorders are available with either a 1TB (DMR-BW930), 500GB (DMR-BW830), or 320GB (DMR-BW730) ...

16. Hitachi Delivers High-Capacity, Low-Power Digital Video Storage
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Hitachi sent out a press release earlier today, announcing two new CinemaStar hard drives. Developed for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes, the CinemaStar 7K1000.B and 5K320 are optimized ...

17. Blu-ray Quickly Gaining Popularity In Japan
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Blu-ray Disc is quickly gaining popularity in Japan. According to PC World, shipments of Blu-ray players and recorders hit a record 122,000 units in June. The demand is expected to be even higher for the ...

18. Pioneer To Enter Blu-ray Recorder Market
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Pioneer announced today that it will launch its first Blu-ray recorder by the end of the year. According to Reuters, Pioneer's new recorders will be developed in cooperation with Sharp. Japanese consumer ...

19. Japan To Charge Copyright Fees On Blu-ray Recorders And Discs
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While Blu-ray recorders haven't made their way to the US quite yet, they're very popular in Japan. So popular, in fact, that the Japanese government plans to add a copyright fee to the price of Blu-ray ...

20. Blu-ray DVD Recorder Sales On The Rise In Japan
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While Blu-ray player sales in the US have been down since January, sales in Japan have risen by nearly threefold. Much of this is due to the popularity of Blu-ray recorders, which topped DVD recorders ...