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Date Headline
6/4/2007
SAI Announces Blu-ray Device Driver for Mac OS 10.4
4/30/2007
GreatVideo!™ Converts & Downloads DVD Video Formats to Apple TV
5/8/2005
Write Once Archiving Software Turns Ordinary Re-writable Disk Drives into Archival Devices for Permanent Record Retention
5/5/2005
WriteUDF!™ UDF Writer for Mac OS 10.4 Released by SAI
9/6/2005
Plextor Ships External 16x DVD Burner
7/5/2005
Plextor Introduces the Simplest Way to Watch, Pause, Record TV on a Personal Computer
5/16/2005
Plextor Ships New Low Cost 16x DVD Burner
3/8/2005
Plextor PVRs Now Support Linux

First Hardware Based PVRs to Deliver MPEG-4 Video Capture and Compression on Linux Platform
2/21/2005
Plextor Introduces Slot-Loaded Optical Drive for Digital Photo Kiosks and Media-Centric Computers

Slot-Loaded Optical Disk Drive Eliminates Breakable Tray, Offers Fail-Safe Method of Extracting Media During Power Failure.
2/14/2005
Fujitsu and Software Architects to Provide Data Security with New Write-Once Technology
2/7/2005
Plextor Adds MPEG-4 Capture to PVR for Macintosh Computer.

Highly Compressed MPEG-4 Files Ideal for Archiving and Wireless Networks
1/24/2005
Plextor Increases DVD RFecording Speeds with Free Firmware Upgrade
1/3/2005
New Aleratec CD Digital Photo Copy Station Copies from Memory Card to CD and is a Duplicator

Windows and Macintosh Support
1/3/2005
Plextor Introduces Cost Reduced Version of 52X CR-R/RW Drive

Ideal High-Performance, Low-Cost Solution for Systems Integrators, Direct Accounts, OEMs
12/13/2004
Alera Technologies Receives PC Magazine Distinction
11/22/2004
Alera Technologies Features 16x Recording Speed and Dual Layer Technology in New DVD Recorder For Macintosh and Windows
11/15/2004
Plextor Teams with Elgato to Introduce USB 2.0 Personal Video Recorder for Macintosh
11/15/2004
Plextor Introduces 16x DVD+-R/RW Drive with Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
11/8/2004
1:11 CD Super Copy Tower Only from Alera Technologies
10/18/2004
Alera Technologies Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Awarded Digital Output Readers’ Choice Top 50 Distinction

Copies Photo Memory Cards to CD without a computer
10/11/2004
New Alera Technologies' Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Plus Copies from Memory Card to CD Anywhere, Anytime
10/11/2004
New Alera Technologies' Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Plus Copies from Memory Card to CD Anywhere, Anytime
9/27/2004
Plextor Introduces 4x Double-Layer Dual Format 16x DVD+-R/RW Burner
9/20/2004
Plextor Selects Decisionmark’s Titan TV Electronic Program Guide for PC-Based Personal Video Recorder with MPEG-4 and DivX
9/20/2004
Alera Technologies Products now available from Ingram Micro Canada
9/14/2004
DivXNetworks Partners With Plextor to Release First DivX Certified PC-Based Personal Video Recorder
9/13/2004
Plextor Introduces First PC-Based Personal Video Recorder with MPEG-4
and DivX Hardware Compression
7/1/2004
Alera Technologies Products Available in the U.S.A. and Latin America Through SED International
6/30/2004
Plextor Introduces External DVD±R/RW Burner With 12X DVD-R Recording Speed
6/21/2004
The DVD/CD Shredder Plus Rugged Media Destruction Device
5/25/2004
Alera Technologies offers Prosumer DVD/CD Repair Tool
5/18/2004
Disc Makers Selects Plextor as Exclusive Provider of CD-RW and DVD-R Drives
5/17/2004
Plextor Introduces Mass-Market Video Capture Device
5/10/2004
Fastest 1:1 DVD/CD Duplicators are Shipping Now from Alera Technologies
5/1/2004
K-PAR Spring Newsletter
4/12/2004
Alera Technologies has the Fastest DVD/CD 1:3 and 1:7 Duplicator Towers
4/5/2004
Alera Technologies and Argraph Corporation Form Marketing Partnership for Digital Imaging Products
3/15/2004
VARBusiness Selects Alera Technologies for 5 Star Award
3/10/2004
Plextor Dual-Format DVD+-R/RW Burner Now Supports High Speed 12x DVD Recording
3/10/2004
Plextor Announces DVD+-R/RW Drive with Serial ATA Interface
3/8/2004
SAI Announces Write Once Archiving Software For Blue Laser High Capacity Re-Writeable Optical Disk Drives
2/17/2004
DivXNetworks Partners With Plextor to Release
First DivX Certified Hardware Video Encoder

2/11/2004
Alera Technologies Launches the First Digital Photo Memory Card to DVD Copier
2/3/2004
Alera Technologies Now Offers Duplicator Grade DVD Recording Media
1/8/2004
Exciting New Slim Cruise Family from Alera Technologies is 1st with Quad Speed
1/7/2004
Plextor Selects Broadfield Distributing, Inc. to Expand Market for ConvertX and DVD±R/RW Products