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TDK's abuse-resistant 200GB Blu-ray disc

10 January 2007, 22:21

TDK's abuse-resistant 200GB Blu-ray Disc media

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LG PC drive writes and read Blu-ray and reads HD DVD

9 January 2007, 06:49

LG, single-handedly, seems to be trying to bring some common sense to the high-def formats war

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Toshiba shows world's first HD DVD writer for desktop PCs

8 January 2007, 22:47

Toshiba Unveils World's First HD DVD Writer for Desktop PCs

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Hitachi promises first 1TB hard disk drive this quarter!

8 January 2007, 02:51

The computer world has been watching and waiting for the launch of the first one terabyte (1TByte) hard disk drive and it's now in sight - due this quarter from ...

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LaCie's new external Blu-ray Disc burner can't play BD movies!

5 January 2007, 18:16

LaCie is set to introduce an external Blu-ray Disc burner in the UK later this month, despite the fact that it's not able to play protected BD movies

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So what's Turbo Flash?

3 January 2007, 17:15

Your first thought is wrong. It's not a way to quickly expose one's self in public. Oh no. It is, in fact, much more decent than that.

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More blue laser diodes inbound, thanks Sharp!

19 December 2006, 10:15

Sharp has started commercial production of blue laser diodes, which could be good news for manufacturers of both blue laser HD formats.

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Prestigio's leather-clad Data Safe II USB pocket-size hard disk

4 December 2006, 16:06

Data Safe II from Prestigio Technologies is a leather-covered 2.5in HDD with one-touch back-up. It's offered in five data sizes from 40GByte to 120GByte and in black or brown leather

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SATA DVD burners going mainstream 'in second half of 2007'

29 November 2006, 14:01

Burner makers in Taiwan are saying they expect to start switching to SATA mid-year as result of two factors - new PCs will be running Windows Vista and carrying Intel's ...

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Lite-On unveils HP-branded HD DVD external reader

24 November 2006, 17:46

Lite-On is promising to launch an HP-branded external HD DVD reader - the hd100 - but hasn't yet revealed the price or availability of the next-generation drive

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Lite-On to launch world's fastest DVD burner (20x). But why?

22 November 2006, 14:20

Lite-On IT has announced that it will be launching a 20x burn-everything model (LH-20A1P) in Europe at the end of December, priced around £30.

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Thecus launches media center edition of N2100BM

20 November 2006, 16:23

Storage solution firm Thecus has developed a new version of their N2100 NAS appliance which adds new features and support for digital media standards.

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LINDY Mac-mini-style USB/FireWire external HDD bay

9 November 2006, 13:06

LINDY sells a Mac-mini form-factor external HDD enclosure that connects by USB 2 or FireWire, uses no fans and is said to work equally well with Windows or Mac PCs

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Lite-On to stop selling own-brand DVD set-top recorders

26 October 2006, 12:51

Lite-On is to stop selling set-top DVD recorders under its own brand worldwide, though sales of own-brand PC optical drives will continue unchanged

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Sony Blu-ray movie playback patch - still not available

2 October 2006, 12:47

Sony's BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner can at last play BD movies thanks to a free downloadable upgrade. In theory. Trouble is, attempting a download only results in a 'come-back-later' message

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More IDE flash

29 September 2006, 11:42

Having a nosy around Super Talent's stand at IDF, we ran into a 4GiB flash drive with integrated IDE controller.

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Intel introduces new XScale based storage processors

28 September 2006, 12:55

Despite the deal to sell its XScale business on to Marvell, Intel has announced a new family of IOP storage processors based on the XScale.

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LaCie uprates d2 external SATA drives to SATA II

27 September 2006, 12:09

LaCie is replacing its d2 family of external SATA hard drives with SATA II models aimed at anyone wanting a fast but cheap alternative to fibre channel or SCSI

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Samsung offers world's first 18x external burner with LightScribe

23 September 2006, 12:19

Fast burning over USB 2.0

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Corsair's 8Gig Voyager leaves (USB) port

22 September 2006, 16:58

See what I did there? Corsair... Voyager... port...? Oh, forget it.

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Fact: Cat urine and laptops don't mix

19 September 2006, 13:19

Fire, water, exploding batteries, hardware failure, accidental damage... there are many reasons a hard drive can go south, taking your data with it. Companies like Disklabs specialise in retreiving that ...

TDK samples 32GB Flash disk

18 September 2006, 17:33

TDK has followed Samsung and launched a hard drive replacement based on NAND Flash memory. The product, which is currently available in sample quantities, was announced by the company last ...

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IFA 2006 :: Blu-ray external drive proves Toshiba wrong

6 September 2006, 18:22

After Toshiba told us that Blu-ray drives were susceptible to the lens making contact with the disc and the disc’s Zircon layer damaging the lens, we were keen to find ...

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IFA 2006 :: Toshiba claims HD DVD superior to Blu-ray

5 September 2006, 14:38

Over at IFA 2006, we sat down with Jim Armour, from Toshiba’s Storage Device Division, to talk to him about the HD DVD format and how it compares to Blu-ray.

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Pioneer denies promising dual-format hi-def DVD burner

4 September 2006, 17:30

Pioneer has strongly denied that its still-distant third-generation high-def Blu-ray Disc DVD burner, the BDR-103, will be a combi model that's also able to write to HD DVD

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AMEX M505-BDR - Core 2 Duo Blu-ray-burner MCE PC due Aug 28

22 August 2006, 12:47

AMEX says that August 28 is the in-store date for the product it will be pushing at September's IFA show in Berlin, the M505-BDR - a Core 2 Duo media-centre ...

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eXcito BUBBA - reasonably-priced, stupidly-named home mini server

21 August 2006, 14:18

There are a whole lot of good reasons for having a server sitting at the centre of a home notework so BUBBA, a complete Linux-based home mini-server from Excito, might ...

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Lite-On SHM-165H6S burn-everything LightScribe E-IDE writer

16 August 2006, 11:45

Lite-On is now selling across Europe a burn-everything internal E-IDE DVD-writer, the SHM-165H6S, that's able to create labels directly to disc using the LightScribe system

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Sony's first Blu-ray Disc burner won't play commercial BD movies!

14 August 2006, 17:27

Amazingly, it looks like Sony's first PC Blu-ray Disc burner, the BWU-100A, won't play commercial Blu-ray Disc movies, only high-def footage from HDV digital camcorders

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DVDirect - Sony's latest 'Why-didn't-I-think-of- that?' killer product?

19 July 2006, 12:12

Sony's VRD-MC3 DVDirect recorder lets you burn video and photos to DVD from a whole lot of sources without a PC - camcorders, cameras, memory cards, VCRs and HDD recorders ...

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