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1. Product news roundup Monday, March 24: Plextor hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD drives, Alienware quad-core PC

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... be available in April for $499 and $649, respectively. Plextor PX-B920SA and PX-B300SA internal Blu-ray drives for PC: The PX-920SA offer a write performance of 4X BD-R (18 MB/s transfer rate) and 2X ...

2. Plextor to launch two BD/HD DVD optical disc drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   Japan-based Plextor, on February 6, unveiled two dual-format Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD DVD optical disc drives, the PX-B300SA and PX-B920SA, for launch in late February, but it is still uncertain whether ...

3. Blu-ray and HD-DVD to freeze competition until 2007 due to laser diode shortage

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

   ... Although several vendors, including Royal Philips Electronics, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS), Sony, Matsushita Electric, Lite-On IT and BenQ, already announced BD or HD-DVD drives, only Pioneer and Plextor ...

4. Plextor to ship Blu-ray burner in October

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Plextor today announced that it will be shipping its first Blu-ray writer for PC in October of this year. The PX-B900A is an internal ATAPI drive that will include software to playback Blu-ray movies ...

5. Benq to ship Blu-ray burner next month

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... appears that Benq will be able to beat Sony and other large manufacturers to market with a burner. Sony, for example, has delayed its BDP-S1 burner until October 2006. Phillips, Plextor and Pioneer plan ...