Moser Baer mulls overseas manufacturing.
Byline: Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee NEW DELHI: With the easing of the global oversupply situation in the optical media business, Moser Baer India is exploring the option of having a research and development as well as manufacturing set-up outside India, to be closer to the US and Europe...

Dumping duty on shipments.
NEW DELHI: In a bid prevent flooding of Indian markets by cheap CDs from China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the directorate of anti-dumping & allied duties has suggested imposition of anti-dumping duties on recordable blank CDs from these countries. In its preliminary recommendations, the directorate has recommended anti-dumping...

Moser Baer to invest Rs 500 cr in home video market.
Byline: K Yatish Rajawat and Ritwik Donde MUMBAI: Moser Baer, the second largest optical disk maker in the world, is embarking on a journey to become a serious player in distributing entertainment content like movies. Moser Baer executive director Ratul Puri spoke to ET about the move...

Moser Baer launches next generation format.
NEW DELHI: Moser Baer has announced that it has started shipping HD DVD-R (recordable), a next generation format, to its global OEMs customers. The HD DVD-R will have a capacity of 15 GB and offers more than three times the data storage capacity of standard DVD media....

Market flat; Pharma, banking stocks up.
11:30 am: NCL Industries fell 0.1% to Rs 36.80 on announcing a scheme of arrangement for merger of NCL Energy, a subsidiary, with itself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:15 am: Wockhardt Ltd remained unchanged at Rs 364.30 on receiving approval from the United States Food & Drug Administration...

Hit parade - Less is more in filmdom.
Byline: Anjali Chandra The concept of a 'hit' film has changed as even a run of six to seven weeks is enough for a new release to be today called a success Dad can proudly repeat the Sholay dialogues verbatim as the movie goes through...

Modified time-based servo enables increased track density on tape.
In 1995, IBM introduced a new tape drive incorporating a novel track following servo system. The 3570's time-based servo system, developed by Tom Albrecht of the IBM Almaden research center, is one of the key enabling technologies now used in all generations of the successful Ultrium line of LTO...

Anti-dumping duty to help optical disc manufacturers.
NEW DELHI: In a major relief to optical disc manufacturers in the country, the government has imposed an anti-dumping duty ranging from Rs 2.24 per unit to Rs 4.20 per unit on import of compact discs recordable (CD-R) from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. "The Indian...

Hindi movie DVDs at Rs 38, VCD at 24.
Byline: K.Yatish Rajawat MUMBAI: In one stroke, Optical disk manufacturer Moser Baer has destroyed the business model of pirated movie seller and even the DVD libraries across the country. Delhi based optical disk maker is going to launch Hindi movies on DVD at Rs 38 and VCD...

Pick up Hindi flick DVDs at Rs 38 only.
MUMBAI: In one stroke, Moser Baer has destroyed the business model of pirated movie seller and even the DVD libraries across the country. Delhi-based optical disk maker is going to launch Hindi movies on DVD at Rs 38 and VCD at Rs 24. The price of a...