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 Topic: NewsThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Toshiba have presented recording and readout results of their proposed HD DVD-R DL, the company's new double layer HD DVD-R disc with a capacity of 30 GB, at the ISOM/ODS '05 event.
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Press Release: Nero have announced the release of Nero Digital Pro - the audio and video compression solution that will be bundled with Nero’s other top five applications.
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Toshiba has invested in Optware, the company developing a holographic optical disc claimed to offer significantly greater storage capacity than next-generation formats like Toshiba's own, HD DVD.
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This year, 80 million DVD burners and 10 million DVD recorders will be sold, and each customer will use 40-50 DVD discs a year on average, resulting in an estimated global demand of 3.5-4.5 billion DVD discs in 2005, according to Ritek company spokesman Eric Ai.
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The new content security scheme for high definition content stored on either HD-DVD and Blu-Ray media will be far more encrypted than with curent DVDs.
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The new firmware for the Pioneer DVR-109/109BK and DVR-A09XLA/B/C is v1.57. The changelog shows increased quality and compatibility updates and also adds multi-border recording for DVD-R DL.
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Plextor unveiled a $99 (£56) box that could replace TiVo. The ConvertX PX-TV100U (What a lovely name!) connects to your cable or satellite dish or antenna and to your computer's USB 2.0 port. The TV tuner in the ConvertX turns your computer into a television, and the built-in programming guide lets you find TV shows up to three days in advance and record them to your hard drive.
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Vinyl records, left for dead when music fans switched to newer formats, are enjoying a revival as music fans dust off their turntables.
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Philips does not currently plan to lower its DVD+R/+RW disc royalty charge of US$0.06. according to James Li, general manager of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in Taiwan. Further, neither Ricoh nor the DVD+RW Alliance has the right to negotiate prices on its behalf.
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Microsoft have announced that it will offer two new wireless keyboards designed for PCs that will run the home entertainment version of Windows.
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Press Release: Plextor today announces two new 16x external DVD rewriters - the PX-716UFL and PX-740UF. In a departure from its usual silver and mirrored finish, Plextor has for the first time designed them both in a stylish matt black chassis. In addition, the PX-716UFL is the company's first external slot loading drive.
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The PlayStation 3 was originally intended to act as a home network router, according to Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi, who has revealed that the functionality has been dropped because it would have been too expensive.
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BBC Three is to premiere comedy series The Mighty Boosh on the internet before it is broadcast on television.
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Sharp has developed a two-layer optical disc which could boost the capacity of the next-generation Blu-ray format. The 100GB disc uses what the Japanese giant calls a "super-resolution functional film". Sharp came up with such a film for single-layer media last year, but this week's announcement centres on an extension of the technology that provides a sufficient level of transparency to enable multi-layer discs.
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Like the increasingly accepted DualDisc, DVDplus offers an audio CD on one side of a disc and DVD content on the other. However, DVDplus provides full-length DVD content, whereas DualDisc typically offers about 30 minutes.
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The DVD+RW Alliance recently held talks with Taiwan-based manufacturers of blank optical discs about adjusting royalty charges for DVD+R and DVD+RW discs from US$0.06 to US$0.04, according to the makers.
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ratDVD v0.7.1235 has been released with several changes made from the previous release. The software takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file - while preserving all the features of the original DVD. New features include direct burning, an ISO creation menu (both require Nero), multi-language support, codec quality/speed optimizations, shut down after convert and many bug fixes.
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OEM quotations for 16x DVD burners have dropped to about US$40 (£23) due to intense competition for orders from leading vendors such as Pioneer, NEC, Lite-On IT, BenQ, HLDS (Hitachi-LG Data Storage) and TSST (Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology), according to Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives (ODDs).
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SolidBurn is a new self-learning feature that will ensure optimal writing conditions for any recordable DVD media. This advanced writer feature executes a series of tests on an 'unknown' DVD media to determine the optimal writing strategy.
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Norwegian developer Jon Lech Johansen has issued a patch for Google's Video Viewer - and taken a sideswipe at the press for sensationalizing the event.
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