- Looking back: CD/DVD-ROM in 1999
HEADNOTE CD-ROM products, though still popular, are starting to lose ground It was a good year for all kinds of CD/ DVD hardware, but a disappointing one for CD/DVD applications software (with a few exceptions). Sales of every kind of optical disc drive increased in 1999. Increasingly, the CD-Recordable (CD-R) ......
- Business Notes
Imation Launches Online Store For Data Storage Media Oakdale, Minn. — Blank media supplier Imation has launched a new online store called http://store.imation.com . It offers select consumer products for data storage, including blank CD and DVD media, USB flash drives, diskettes, jewel cases and other storage accessories. Hard-to-find discontinued ......
- Imation To Roll Out Optical Media Formats
Oakdale, Minn. — Optical storage media maker Imation said it is finalizing the development of HD DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media, with plans to utilize the company's proprietary hard-coat protective disc coating in the development of both formats. Imation, which expects to begin shipping HD DVD and Blu-ray media ......
- Optical disks.
OPPORTUNITY: Digital video discs (DVDs). GROWTH OUTLOOK: DVDs (also called digital versatile discs) are so new that it is hard to predict the market with any certainty - though everyone believes it will be huge. The first video players for the new high-density DVDs hit the market in March, and ......
- Toshiba Adds Dual-Layer HD DVD-R
TOKYO — The DVD Forum's Steering Committee approved version 1.9 of Toshiba's 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R write-once recordable disc format. Toshiba said it plans to bring to market next spring an HD DVD recorder that will support the disc. The dual-layer HD DVD-R, which was approved at a Sept. 14 ......
- Blu-ray Disc Blank Media Hits Shelves
New York — Blank optical disc manufacturers are rolling out the first generation of recordable and rewriteable Blu-ray Disc (BD) media in the United States, despite a lack of actual hardware on the market, giving the format an early step up on its rival technology, HD DVD. Anticipating the gradual ......
- Distribution center opens
Imation Corp., Oakdale, Minnesota, opened a new 364,000-square-foot distribution center in Southaven, Miss., on August 21. The company will consolidate its distribution of Memorex products at this center and close its Memorex operations in Winchester, Va; Ontario, Calif.; Collierville, Tenn.; and one facility in Kansas City, Mo. Imation also will ......