TOKYO — Panasonic Disc Manufacturing Corp. of America has added the ability to produce dual-layer Blu-ray Discs to a test production line the company is operating at its factory in California, the ...

Garden City, N.Y. — Looking to trump the HD DVD format’s triple-layer disc format, TDK formally announced this week development of a prototype quadruple-layer Blu-ray Disc format capable of storing up ...

It’s been an industry non-secret that manufacturers have had an easier time making dual-layer HD DVD discs than dual layer Blu-ray discs. Hence, 30GB dual-layer HD DVD media have already been on the ...

Osaka, Japan – Panasonic, the leading brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is best known, today announced that the company will introduce Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives for notebook and ...

In April this year, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced the final specifications for the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc format which can more than double the storage capacity of ...

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The Pioneer Electronics BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc Computer Writer is the industry’s first and fastest model to feature up to 12x write speed for single and dual-layer Blu-ray discs, up from previous speeds ...

TORRANCE, Calif. Panasonic has modified its existing pilot production line for single-layer Blu-ray Discs, called BD-ROM, so that it is able to replicate dual-layer BD-ROM discs with 50 gigabytes (GB) ...

New Pioneer Blu-ray Disc Computer Writer Delivers Full Potential of HD Disc Format Combining High Speed Performance with Dual-Layer Write Support To the delight of creative consumers and professional ...

FastMac has announced a 4x dual layer Blu-Ray Disc drive for Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 systems. It costs $579.95. Blu-Ray Disc is a new 5.25-inch optical disc format that’s gaining traction as a way of ...

According to a Macworld report today, TDK Interactive has developed a new Blu-ray disc that can hold twice as much information and record at twice the speed of existing dual-layer Blu-ray discs. The ...