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Tuesday 17 February 2009
China Blu-ray Disc testing center kicks off operation, says paper
CESI Blu-ray Disc Product Testing Center, currently the only testing and certification body for Blu-ray Disc (BD) devices in China, has formally kicked off its operation, according...
Friday 6 February 2009
Lite-On IT to volume produce Blu-ray Disc players in 3Q09, paper says
Lite-On IT, the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height optical disc drives (ODDs), has been developing Blu-ray Disc (BD) players and plans to kick off volume production in the...
Tuesday 3 February 2009
US$150 white-box Blu-ray Disc players available in 2009, paper says
Following an intensive price war to promote sales of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players amid international brands in the US and European markets prior to Christmas 2008, white-box vendors...
Thursday 22 January 2009
China market: DVD player sales volume down over 18% in 2008
There were an estimated 15.192 million DVD players, including portable models and DVD recorders, sold in the China market with a total sales value of 7.66 billion yuan (US$1.10 billion)...
Monday 19 January 2009
Broadcom and MediaTek to battle in handset, DTV and Blu-ray Disc chip markets, says paper
Broadcom has introduced Edge and 3G handset baseband chips and gained design wins from Samsung Electronics and Nokia. It has also launched 65nm DTV and Blu-ray Disc chips in line...
Friday 16 January 2009
Taiwan maker Kenmec to start shipping Blu-ray Disc players
Kenmec Mechanical Engineering, a Taiwan-based producer of automation and FPD (flat panel display) equipment, will begin to ship Blu-ray Disc (BD) players on an ODM basis soon, and...
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Lenovo launches two consumer desktop PCs and a nettop
Lenovo has announced three new desktop PCs aimed at the consumer market.
Thursday 8 January 2009
WinHEC 2008: Acer combines the latest CE technologies into a notebook
After introducing of its first notebook featuring Dolby Digital in 2006, Acer has again implanted the latest consumer electronics technologies into its notebook product line this...
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Ritek lands order for 6x BD-R discs from US
Ritek, the second largest Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, has obtained an order for blank 6x Blu-ray Disc (BD)-R (recordable, write once) discs from a retail channel in...
Monday 29 December 2008
China market: Local maker launches Blu-ray Disc players
China Hualu Panasonic AVC Networks, a maker of DVD discs, players and recorders, has launched its first three models of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, BDP0801, BDP0810 and BDP0821, in...
Wednesday 24 December 2008
Taiwan-based IC designers plan to cooperate with China makers to offer white-box Blu-ray Disc players in 3Q09
Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses, including MediaTek and Sunplus Technology, plan to cooperate with hardware makers in China to offer Blu-ray Disc (BD) players for white-box...
Tuesday 23 December 2008
China's answer to Blu-ray not inciting fear of another format war
While several China-based large vendors/makers of consumer electronics plan to launch devices supporting CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc), China's home grown blue-laser optical...
Monday 22 December 2008
MediaTek, Sunplus poised to offer Blu-ray Disc chipsets in 2Q09
MediaTek and Sunplus Technology, two Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses, are in the process of certifying Blu-ray Disc (BD) player chipsets with potential clients and expect to...
Friday 19 December 2008
BTC steps into production of loaders for Blu-ray Disc players
Behavior Tech Computer (BTC), which recently quit OEM production and own-brand marketing of PC-use half-height DVD drives, has stepped into making loaders for Blu-ray Disc (BD) players...
Friday 19 December 2008
Makers of Blu-ray Disc players in Taiwan and China hit by price cuts
Taiwan and China-based OEM makers of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players in October and November 2008 actively shipped entry-level BD player models, planned for sale at US$199-229, to retail...