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The PX-810UF is scheduled to ship later this month for a suggested retail price of $139.00. More information can be found here. Add a comment
Plextor LLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, today announced the immediate availability of the PX-810UF DVD Super Multi Drive. This external drive combines the 18X DVD+/-R and 12X DVD-RAM performance of Plextor's PX-810 Series drives with the convenience and portability of USB and FireWire interfaces.
The PX-810UF features a dual interface with Hi-Speed USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire), enabling users in a small office or professional studio to share a single external high-performance DVD/CD burner among multiple Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows-based PCs. Burst data transfer rates of 480 Mbps (USB 2.0) or 400 Mbps (FireWire) allow a user to burn a 4.7 GB DVD+R disc in approximately six minutes.
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While details are still a bit sketchy, Panasonic is also developing a new Blu-ray Disc drive capable of writing to BD-R and BD-R DL media at 4x. According to their press release, this unnamed drive can write an entire 25GB BD-R disc in as little as 23 minutes. Add a comment
Panasonic, the leadingbrand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, announcedtoday that the company will globally introduce Write-Once Blu-ray Discs(BD-R) with 4x writing speed.
The new discs will be available in both 25GB and 50GB, which will beintroduced in the market this July and September respectively.
In conjunction with the launch of 4x BD drives, the new discs have thecapability of 4x speed writing and reading, allowing users to handle largeamount of data or High Definition content with greater convenience.Panasonic is the first company to announce the market introduction of 4xBD-R Discs.
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According to AV Watch, Mitsubishi Chemical's 30GB HD DVD-R DL media is expected to cost about 4,800 Yen ($33US). More information can be found here. Add a comment
Mitsubishi chemical media corporation (head office: The tokyo Minato-ku, president: Otsuka heavily virtue), single sided 2 layer 30GB for the PC data HD DVD-R (postscript type) we sell the disk on this year July 20th.
This corporation in 2006 July sold the single sided 2 layer 30GB HD DVD-R disk for video recording for the first time in the world, digital hi-vision broadcast image while it was hi-vision picture quality actualized the fact that it records to the long haul disk. This time it continues to this, receives the sale of the corresponding equipment, single sided 2 layer 30GB for the PC data HD DVD-R (postscript type) sells the disk.
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JVC has not announced a price. However, AV Watch expects the discs to cost about 1,400 Yen ($11US). Full details can be found here. Add a comment
Victor Company of Japan, the first company in the world to develop a single-sided Dual Layer rewritable DVD disc,today announced the release of single-sided Dual Layer DVD-RW disc for data capable of storing large amountsof data through continuous rewriting.
The new products have a single sided recording capacity of 8.5GB, which is similar to the single-sided Dual LayerDVD-R discs and 1.8 times recording capacity of conventional single-sided DVDs. In addition to the space savingadvantages provided by the new DVD-RWs, superior operability is attained through deletion and rewriting of data.The new DVD-RW discs are both economical and environmentally friendly as they can be reused repeatedly.
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Verbatim is also expanding their product lineup beyond storage media to include things like MP3 players, memory card readers and optical mice. Full details can be found here. Add a comment
Verbatim, the storage media specialist, is to introduce newly designed packaging. The worldwide branding uses a special colour system to make it easier for customers to select the correct media for their requirements. All products, such as different storage formats, can now be easily identified. Verbatim’s websites have also been redesigned in line with the new global branding.
From 1st July 2007 Verbatim will be introducing new, globally consistent packaging, on a world-wide basis. With the new, consistent global look, customer orientation is made easier. ”Increasing globalisation and mobility mean that consistent communications across country borders are now a necessity. The design of the packaging plays an essential role in this, as customers recognise products and manufacturers in the first instance from the way they look,” explains Rüdiger Theobald, Business Development and Marketing Manager Verbatim EUMEA.
