JVC Advanced Media Introduces Recordable Blu-ray LTH Media
One of the biggest players in the world of optical storage is JVC Advanced Media. Their discs were sold in the US under the brand name Taiyo Yuden until 2010 when the company transitioned to its current moniker. Both Taiyo Yuden and JVC Advanced Media are known for the high quality of their recordable CD [...]
Sony DADC Warehouse Destroyed by Fire in London Riots
Although most of us are are familiar with the Sony Corporation for their brand-name electronics, Sony is also a major player in the music, video, and entertainment business. Sony Music Entertainment is the second-largest record label in the world, and Sony Pictures Entertainment delivers the movies that delight audiences all over the globe. Sony’s DADC [...]
Blu-ray Burning Bug Discovered in Windows 7
The latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft – Windows 7 – has been on the market for almost two years now. Since it first went on sale in October of 2009, Windows 7 has broken numerous sales records for Microsoft products and for the software industry as a whole. Now, a new issue has [...]
Columbia House Launches Blu-ray Disc Club
If you picked up a magazine or newspaper at all during the 1980s or 1990s, you have probably seen an ad for Columbia House. The music-by-mail outfit relied heavily on advertising campaigns that lured in new customers with promises of a dozen tapes or compact discs for just pennies when you joined their club.
After joining [...]
Blu-ray Sales to Top 400 Million Discs by 2013
It was just last week that we wrote about the NPD Group, the market research firm who reported that optical discs are still the dominant form of home entertainment by a large margin. Now, another study is predicting huge growth for manufactured Blu-ray discs over the next 2 years.
The report was recently published by the [...]
