Category Archives: Blu-ray/HD DVD

Roxio has added Blu-ray Disc authoring support to its Mac-based burning tool Toast 7, the company said today.

Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) will this month ship the world’s first 4x Blu-ray Disc recorder, it has been claimed. The higher speed applies only to recording – rewriteable BD-RE media will spin at the more commonplace 2x speed.

Patent player MPEG LA today announced that the first meeting of essential Blu-ray disc patent owners, consisting of 17 companies, was held in Los Angeles earlier this month.

Sony will ship its anticipated internal Blu-ray Disc burner in the US in August, the electronics giant’s North American division said yesterday. Separately, one the company’s Blu-ray backing chums, Samsung, unveiled its first PC with an integrated BD-ROM drive.