SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26, 2005 — Transferring home movies to DVDs has never been easier than with Sony’s next-generation DVDirect (pronounced DVD Direct) recorder, which lets you convert footage in ...

Pioneer Electronics will ship a PC Blu-ray burner early in the second half of 2005 and follow that introduction with a home recorder at a later date. Andy Parsons, Pioneer’s senior VP, business ...

It takes place everyday and every night, in backrooms and basements, garages and even kitchens: Amateur musicians are using computers to make home recordings that sound like they came from a studio.