GLG News by DVD Replication Volume Trend Experts (North America)

1. Without carrier subsidies, consumers will pay more for phones2. Too many choices will confuse consumers3. Quality of service experience may suffer4. Carriers will find ways to recoup the lost revenue

  Hitachi Global Storage Technology announced at the 2007 CES conference that they would begin shipping the world’s first 1 TB hard disk drive The Hitachi drive uses perpendicular recording to achieve 3.5-inch disk drive areal densities of over 140 Gbpsi The Hitachi announcement follows announcements...

  Several hard disk drive companies announced the formation of the Hybrid Hard Disk Drive Alliance to promote the use of hard disk drives with nonvolatile flash memory cache on the drive The flash memory asks as both a nonvolatile write cache and to hold some of the operating system for faster...

  Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with a storage capacity of 100 GB. This two-disk drive used perpendicular magnetic recording to give 155 gigabits per square inch areal density These disk drives are designed for the ultra-light notebook computer market as well as portable rich...

Seagate acquired online backup provider EVault Inc. for $185 million in cash.The acquisition adds to Seagate’s growing service business acquired through other acquisitions such as Action Front and Mirra.Seagate is seeking to expand its presence in the storage applications business while continuing to...

·Hard disk drive capacities have grown to support higher resolution consumer and other applications. ·While HDD capacities have increased about 5,700 times over the last 15 years data transfer rates have only increased about 91-121 times depending upon the modern HDD. ·HDD storage capacity...

- eSATA extends the internal SATA storage interface to the outside world and can even utilize the same controller electronics used to interface with internal storage - eSATA provides direct attached storage data rates that are 3 to 6-times faster than USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394b (Firewire) - Data rates...

--Time Warner introduced it’s version of a network DVR service called “Start Over” --Network DVR introductions still face legal hurtles over licensing from the content owners. --Network DVR offers some attractive features to cable operators as well as consumers but may not address consumer’s growing...

Seagate reports unit numbers exceeding many expectations in FQ1 2007 Seagate completes writing off Maxtor purchase Seagate dominates some markets and is positioned to gain in others Other disk drive players to fight over market share of 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch market