- Humax Announces 1st Product Lineup
SANTA ANA, CALIF.— Humax USA, new subsidiary of a leading South Korean set-top box manufacturer, recently announced it will carry four TiVo personal video recorder set-tops, and a line of LCD TVs with integrated live pause and rewind functionality. The company said it will ship in June two standalone TiVo ......
- Toshiba Intros New Laptops, Dual-Format DVD Burners
Irvine, Calif.— Toshiba's Storage Device Division has introduced dual-format DVD burners for the desktop and notebook computer markets. Toshiba has offered dual-format DVD burners in its Satellite notebook line, but these are its first aftermarket dual-format drives. The SD-R5272 is a half-height internal PC drive that is now available direct ......
- PCs, Flat-Panel TVs Abound At RetailVision
INDIAN WELLS, CALIF.— RetailVision Spring 2004 attracted more than 206 vendors and 200 retailer representatives to the California desert, braving unseasonable 100-degree heat to view a slew of new products, which for the first time included several CE devices, such as flat-panel TVs and DVD players. The new products included ......
- Lite-On Signs On To Distribute LightScribe
MILPITAS, Calif.— Optical disc drive manufacturer Lite-On continues to expand distribution into many of the nation's leading CE and IT retail accounts with its recently expanded lines of DVD recorders, DVD recorder combos and PC disc drives. Most recently, the company has signed on as an official distributor of HP-branded ......
- PC Briefs
Memorex Introduces 8x Dual DVD Burner SANTA FE SPRINGS, CALIF. — Memorex will start shipping the Memorex True 8x DVD burner in January. The drive will burn both plus and dash DVD media and will carry a $249 suggested retail price. The True 8x will write to DVD+RW and DVD-RW ......
- Lite-On Grows DVD Recorder Mix
MILPITAS, Calif. — Lite-On IT, a China-based manufacturer of value-priced optical-disc drives and other PC components, is making rapid advances into the U.S. consumer electronics market with a line of easy-to-use DVD recording decks, which shortly will include aggressively priced combo decks. In recent months, the formerly IT-centric company has ......
- Humax TiVo DVD Recorder Ships, Designed For Easy Operation
NEW YORK — Humax USA introduced, here, its DRT800 combination DVD recorder and DVR with TiVo service as the latest in its series of stand-alone TiVo decks. The new model, which is shipping now, will combine a DVD-RW/-R recorder with a TiVo 80GB Series 2 DVR, and will carry a ......