Pioneer will release the BDR-S03J, the company’s first 8x Blu-ray disc burner in Japan in January, with worldwide shipments to follow. The SATA drive offers reading and writing of CD/DVD and Blu-ray media. It features a dustproof structure that keeps dust away from the internal of the drive’s case, as well as Pioneer’s Disc-Resonance Stabiliser [...]
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the completion of the USB 3.0 specification, the technical map for device manufacturers to deliver SuperSpeed USB technology to the market. SuperSpeed USB brings significant power and performance enhancements to the popular USB standard while offering backward compatibility with USB-enabled PCs and peripheral devices currently in use. SuperSpeed USB [...]
WD today added a high-speed FireWire 800 interface to its My Passport Studio portable drive. With FireWire 800/400 and USB interfaces, the new My Passport Studio portable drives offer up to 500 GB of storage capacity, are formatted for Mac computersand weigh less than 7 ounces. A built-in, illuminated capacity gauge tells users how much [...]
Avid Technology has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Pinnacle PCTV product line and related assets to Hauppauge Digital, Inc.. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2008; financial terms were not disclosed. “Millions of media enthusiasts worldwide use our award-winning line of Pinnacle consumer products to create and share digital [...]
8X Blu-ray Disc™ Recordable/Rewritable Drive Satisfy your burning desires and record up to four hours of 1080 Full HD video with this internal Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive. Also includes Men in Black on Blu-ray Disc. Let one drive manage all of your burning needs. The BWU-300S Blu-ray Disc™ recordable/rewritable drive can record up to four [...]
Intel launched seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products, offering up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory. Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor “sockets” to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, offering tremendous scalability, ample computing threads and [...]
IEEE has approved IEEE 1394 “Standard for High Performance Serial Bus,” offering speeds up to 3.2 Gigabit/second. Commercially known under the brand names of FireWire (Apple’s name) and i.LINK (Sony’s name), the IEEE 1394 standard provides specifications for a high-speed serial bus which supports both asynchronous and isochronous communication and integrates well with most IEEE [...]
Sony developed a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor for with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, includingcmos_chip nearly twofold sensitivity and low noise. This improved performance has been achieved by illuminating the backside of the silicon substrate, in contrast to conventional CMOS image sensors based on front-illumination technology. The newly developed CMOS image sensor achieves a signal-to-noise ratio [...]
Consumers Benefit from Optimal Write Speed, Quieter Drive Usage and Anti Dust Mechanism Long Beach, CA 6/10/2008 Pioneer DVR-116DPioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today and deliver unprecedented write quality that exceeds the performance of similarly priced competitive devices. The Pioneer® DVR-116D and DVR-216D DVD/CD writers features a new Optimal Write Speed setting that recognizes the disc [...]
Sony announced today that its PlayStation 3 is poised to take the next step in the evolution of the Blu-ray Disc format. The firmware, due soon, will update the PS3 to Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0, also referred to as BD Live. BD Live enables Internet-connected activities such as multiplayer gaming, e-commerce, downloading new content, and [...]
