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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. Plextor announces pocket-sized DVD burner

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   Plextor today announced the availability of a new compact DVD burner to date. The PX-608CU is less than 16 millimeters thick and weighs about 0.5 pounds. Chicago (IL) - Plextor today announced the availability ...

4. Intel P965, Microsoft Vista to boost adoption of SATA optical drives

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   ... to optical disc drive (ODD) manufacturers in Taiwan. Following LG, Plextor, Sony and Taiwan-based Asustek, Pioneer and Panasonic as well as Taiwan-based Lite-On IT will soon offer DVD-ROM drives or DVD ...

5. New Plextor drive "obliterates" data on CDs/DVDs with laser blasts

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   Plextor has announced a new drive that erases CDs and DVDs by blasting them with laser light. The PlexEraser PX-OE100E "obliterates" the data layer on almost every format of recordable CD and DVD and ...

6. CMC, Ritek 18x DVD media production limited, tight supply possible

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   ... according to industry sources. Plextor, Lite-On IT, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony, NEC and BenQ currently offer 18x DVD burners while Pioneer and Asustek Computer will do so soon. More here ...

7. 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 ...

8. Plextor to ship Blu-ray burner in October

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   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 ...

9. Lite-On IT to offer 20x DVD burners in Q4

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     Lite-On IT, given the fact that several global leading brands will follow Japan-based Plextor and unveil 18x DVD burner models this quarter or early next quarter, is preparing to offer 20x DVD burners ...

10. Benq to ship Blu-ray burner next month

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    ... 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 ...

11. Sixth DVD IC manufacturer hit with MPAA injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The legal victories for the Motion Picture Association of America continued yesterday, as it announced its member companies have won another injunction against a DVD chip manufacturer - this time, Sunplus ...

12. Lite-On IT to roll out 18x DVD burner; BenQ still on hold

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      With Plextor recently announcing its PX-760A 18x DVD burner (DVD+/-R/RW CD-R/RW), Lite-On IT stated it also plans to volume produce 18x DVD burners in the third quarter of this year, though BenQ ...

13. Plextor breaks 16x speed barrier for DVD writers

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    Plextor is the first company that apparently has found a way to increase DVD writer speeds beyond the 16x mark, which has been considered a physical limitation for DVD media. The new writer increases ...

14. Free firmware upgrade increases performance of Plextor DVD burner

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      Plextor said it will provide two free firmware upgrades for its PX-716 Double Layer drive that will increase with writing speeds to 6x for DVD+R DL and 6x for DVD-R DL media. Plextor said it will ...

15. 16x DVD-R media to ship in January

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    ... Plextor, and Sony are among the manufacturers that already have announced drives supporting 16x recording speed. (THG)  ...

16. Plextor DVD±R/RW burner now supports 12X DVD recording

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      Plextor today announced the new PX-712A DVD±R/RW drive with support for high-speed 12X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R recording. Plextor today announced the new PX-712A DVD±R/RW drive with support ...

17. 300+ RDRAM-Based Systems on the Street

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    ... to DVD/R devices as soon as they become affordable, the CD drive folks continue to make the devices faster. And, since they're decidedly much cheaper than DVD/R, they're still pretty attractive. Plextor ...

18. Plextor CD-RW Drive with 24X-Write, 10X-Rewrite, and 40X-Read Burns Fast

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      Despite the fact that we'll probably all be moving to DVD/R devices as soon as they become affordable, the CD drive folks continue to make the devices faster. BiTMicro Networks is now showing ...

19. PS2 to use Seagate hard drives

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    ... Mitsubishi, and Plextor. ML technology will allow up to 2 GBytes storage at rates of up to 36X on $2 ML blanks, as opposed to 700 MBytes on standard CD-RW discs at 12X rates. TDK plans to scale up soon ...