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)...
Quanta Storage, the largest Taiwan-based maker of slim-type optical disc drives, has purchased molds for half-height (H/H) DVD drives from the optical disc drive business unit of...
Taiwan-based Quanta Storage and Lite-On IT may face more competition from Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) in the slim-type DVD burner...
Optical disc drives makers Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) lowered their quotes for half-height 20x DVD burners by 15-20% from US$20 at...
Thanks to booming sales of netbooks, external slim-type DVD burners have enjoyed increased sales in the Taiwan market since August 2008, but retail prices have dropped by 3-5%, according...
Suppliers of small- to medium-size displays (under 10 inches in diagonal) will face a much less cheerier holiday season than last year. According to the latest forecast from DisplaySearch,...
Leading Taiwan-based makers of pre-recorded optical discs, including U-Tech Media and Feng Sheng Technology, have seen thier orders for DVD movie discs from major movie studios in...
Lite-On IT will begin volume production of DVD burners supporting Qflix, a technology jointly developed by US-based Sonic Solutions and Pioneer to allow consumers to directly download...
Lite-On IT has reportedly obtained orders from Japan-based Plextor to manufacture a 20x DVD burner, the PX-806SA, with shipments to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008, according...
Optodisc Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of blank DVD+R/-R, DVD+RW/-RW and DVD-RAM discs, on August 18 announced that its request for corporate restructuring to improve its business...
Market reports in the US indicate that the sales ratio of Blu-ray movie discs to DVDs will rise to an estimated 40:60 in 2010 and the sales volume of BD movie discs may surpass that...
PChome Online, a web portal and operator of online shopping service in Taiwan, on July 25 announced its cooperation with HowGoing, an operator of an online rental service of DVD movie...
International retail prices of blank 4-6x DVD+R/-R DL discs have dropped by about 50% during the first half of 2008 to around US$1, spurring a fast growth in global demand. As the...
Lite-On IT plans to offer external USB slim-type DVD burners in the third quarter of 2008, targeting owners of UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs), Eee PCs and other low-cost portable PCs that...
Lite-On IT has obtained OEM orders for 22x DVD burners both from Sony and BenQ, with volume production to begin in the third quarter of 2008, according to industry sources.
