Media Storage

Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN), a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, today announced it has begun its scale-up of manufacturing for HD DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media in preparation for product introduction in early 2006. The company invested more than $10 million in 2005 in research, development and modular manufacturing capabilities to position [...]

LONGMONT, CO - InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage media and systems, today announced that it has developed and is shipping the first Holographic-ROM (H-ROM) media targeted for use in consumer devices. Data is recorded into the Tapestry HDS4000 media with the same wavelength red lasers used in CDs and DVDs. This [...]

If you buy a (conventional audio) CD, you expect to find basic
information about the music printed on the disc and/or the
paper insert:

Year published (copyright date)
Song titles
Performers/composers
(maybe) lyrics and other descriptive information

If you buy an MP3 file, most of this metadata should be embedded in
the file in addition to the sounds. Programs like iTunes and
Musicmatch that [...]

Boasting up to 80X read and write speeds, Corsair’s new Compact Flash and Secure Digital memory cards guarantee to perform to specifications.
Fremont, CA (May 25, 2005) - Corsair Memory, Inc., a worldwide leader in high performance memory and cooling products for enthusiasts and overclockers, today is pleased to announce expansion of its popular flash memory [...]

Equipped with this new technology, Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express will now offer OEM customers multi-session burning and improved read compatibility.
(May 24, 2005) - Nero, leaders in digital media technologies, announced today that its applications, Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express, now support Layer-Jump Recording (LJR) of dual-layer DVD-R media, thus permitting multi-session burning, [...]

Free Nero Digital will be available as a free download beginning of April 2005 at nero.com. Users will be able to download and try out all the features of Nero Digital, the world’s premiere MPEG-4 solution. To put it in perspective, with the Nero Digital codec, you can fit the entire audio and video contents [...]

2-Gigabyte SanDisk Cruzer Titanium Offers Extraordinary Mechanical Strength, Style, and Encryption Software to Safeguard Important Data.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has announced the addition of a 2-gigabyte Cruzer Titanium to its award-winning line of portable flash drives. Cruzer Titanium is a sleek, USB 2.0 hi-speed flash storage drive that is virtually indestructible and designed to physically protect [...]

New high- megapixel Olympus and Fuji cameras spark demand for high-capacity xD-picture cards.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has doubled the capacity of its xD-Picture Card and introduced a one gigabyte version (Type M) of the popular flash memory card. The announcement was made at the annual CeBIT show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Hall 1, Stand [...]

Samsung Electronics Ltd., the worldwide digital consumer electronics and information technology leader, builds on the tremendous success of its award-wining 16X DVD ReWritable disc drive technology with the introduction of the faster, more powerful Writemaster TS-H552U. Designed for the consumer market, the TS-H552U offers an amazing 5X dual layer speed recording - one of the [...]

Direct Disc Labeling Technology Integrated into Nero 6 software - Technology Allows the User to Burn Professional-Looking, Silkscreen-Quality CD/DVD Labels Directly onto Discs from Home or Office PCs
Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that it has partnered with LightScribe to bring the Direct Disc Labeling technology to Nero’s vast community of users. With [...]

Do you have a brand new digital camera or are you going to pony up the money to buy one this year? Then you know you will have lots and lots of images to save on your hard drive. And you know you are going to forget what the images are about - [...]

I recently ran out of room on the 150GB external drive I use to store all my music and video files. My original plan was to buy a second drive, this time using a 250-300GB model for expansion. After careful comparison shopping and some help from some newsletter subscribers, I opted to build my own [...]