(202) However, the USTR's report failed to adopt the IIPA's recommendations as to
optical disc piracy, which included the targeting of burner and blank disc operations, the reinstatement of minimum penalties for certain copyright violations and amendment of the OMML.
XYXIS Corp.'s Erasable
Optical Disc Subsystem supports Macintosh, DOS, Novell, OS/2, Unix, DEC, Amiga and Sun.
In July this year, Panasonic launched its 'LB-DM9 series' of
optical disc storage devices.
The electronics maker will halt the operations of Sony Optiarc Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary for the
optical disc business based in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, at the end of next March and liquidate it later, the officials said.
Although the electronics maker suffered the impact of poor sales in its plasma displays as well as the stronger yen, Pioneer said it benefited from the launch of its
optical disc joint venture with Sharp Corp., seeing increased sales for its Blu-ray disc drive-related products.
EDCI Holdings Inc, the parent company of Entertainment Distribution Company Inc which is the majority shareholder of Entertainment Distribution Company LLC, a European supplier of supply chain services to the
optical disc market, announced on 31 March its decision to close EDC's
optical disc facility at Blackburn in the UK, effective 31 December 2009, and transfer production to its facility in Hannover in Germany.
New Medium Enterprises (NME) (OTCBB:NMEN), London, and the DaTARIUS Group, have signed an agreement, where DaTARIUS becomes the preferred off-line testing equipment provider for the HD VMD
optical disc format.
Cartwright adds considerable experience and expertise to Sun Chemical's marketing and business team, having worked in the
optical disc industry for nine years.
New molds for higher-performance
optical disc formats such as HD-DVD and Blu-ray have been developed by Axxicon Molds Los Angeles Inc.
Magnetic tape systems surged ahead of
optical disc systems during the past ten years; but optical has a fresh chance to recover its leadership in the storage hierarchy--even though, where cost is the chief concern, tape has so far won out.
1, which shows that the
optical disc offers the best balance between storage capacity and access time.
