Amex Digital announced the PD-K06e Portable Super Multi Drive, an external DVD burner. The DVD burner is able to write on DVD-R/+R at up to 20X and DVD-R/+R Dual Layer at up to 10X speed.

It can also burn CD-R and CD-RW …

TrustedReviews has reviewed Pioneer DVR-560HX DVD/HDD combo recorder. The Pioneer DVR-560HX has a 160GB hard drive and supports DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW and DVD-R and DVD+R dual layer media.

TrustedReviews’ comments:
The DVR-560HX is a mightily impressive DVD/HDD combi, offering a stupendous amount of features at a much lower price than you may have expected for a Pioneer product. Freeview and DVD picture quality is of the highest order, it plays a wide array of formats and build quality is exceptional. The only negative thing we can think of is that it doesn’t quite mask its inherent complexity quite as well as the Panasonic DMR-EX88, which boasts a more user-friendly interface. But if you do opt for the Pioneer, you won’t be disappointed.

Sanwa, from Japan, offers the CD-RE1AT optical disc repairer. Looks like a portable CD player, the device is able to repair discs and removes dust, fingerprints, and oily spots from the surface of discs. Sanwa CD-RE1AT will also apply a protective layer on the …

The Tohoku University in Japan has developed a new technology to record up to 42GB of data in a single DVD disc. The 42GB capacity is acheived by recoding data in V-shape pits.

What’s good about this technology is that we can make our current DVD burner …

Sony will offers in Japan the DVP-NS700H DVD player. The player supports playback of DVD+RW/+R/+R DL and DVD-RW/-R/-R DL discs while CD-R/RW discs are also supported.

Sony DVP-NS700H supports Full HD 1080p output via HDMI connectivity.

[Sony Japan]

Toshiba announced a DVD burner, Gigashot GSC-DW1, that can record directly from Toshiba’s Gigashot A and K series of camcorders. The GSC-DW1 can write on DVD-R discs and supports USB 2.0. You can also …

Toshiba introduces 3 new Portable DVD players, SD-P91DT, SD-P71DT and SD-P71S. All of them supports 1Seg TV reception.

Toshiba SD-P91DT (pictured above) is the 9-inch model that supports HD DVD, DVD (including DVD-R and DVD-RW), while it supports also DivX, 1Seg digital TV reception and JPEG image …

Plextor introduces two new combo optical drives, PX-B300SA and PX-B920SA that supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray.

The first drive, PX-B300SA, is actually a DVD write while it can also play Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. With 4MB buffer, PX-B300SA writes DVD+/-R at 16x, DVD+/-R DL …

Panasonic launches two new video recorders, the DMR-XP12 and DMR-XP22V that supports MPEG-4 AVC encoding. Panasonic DMR-XP12 comes with a 250GB hard drive and it can also record to DVD Dual Layer or DVD-RAM.

On the other hand, the DMR-XP22V not only …

Canon announced also the DC330, DC320 and DC310 DVD digital camcorders. The Canon DC330, DC320 feature a 1.07 Megapixel CCD image sensor, Canon 48x Advanced Zoom and a 2.7-inch LCD screen.

DC310 features a 680,000 Pixel CCD Image Sensor, …