20th Century Fox, Warner, SanDisk, And Western Digital Plan Moveable Media Feast

By Trefis: Western Digital (WDC), one of the leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, has collaborated with SanDisk (SNDK), a flash memory or NAND market leader, to launch its first hybrid disk drive (SSHD). [

Last month, Rupert Murdoch announced that Twentieth Century Fox was entering the 21st century, albeit 13 years late, by splitting its publishing and entertainment units and renaming the News Corp TV and film entertainment divisions "21st Century Fox."

By Dana Blankenhorn: The handwriting is on the wall for hard disks, the spinning aluminum disks that have been the standard for mass storage since before I started covering technology.The increased capacity, falling price, and greater durability of chip-based memory has been steadily making inroads into the hard drive market. Devices like mobile phones and tablets are known for having no moving parts at all - no hard drive sales there.

  Western Digital, one of the leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, has collaborated with SanDisk, a flash memory or NAND market leader, to launch its first hybrid disk drive. The move comes as the storage device maker catches up with its largest competitor Seagate to tap the expected surge in demand of SSHDs. Below we discuss how the deal could benefit Western Digital going forward.

By Codespeed: As we move slowly towards the fourth quarter of 2012, technology consumption trends are changing at a fast pace, and leading technology companies are competing neck to neck to offer the coolest smartphone, the best HDTV, lightest laptop, the fastest microchip and the smallest hybrid disk drive. Amidst all this chaos, the technology sector continues to outperform many other sectors, as consumers continue to spend on devices in spite of the sad state of economy.

I took the plunge and bought a Blu-ray player Monday, on sale at $300 instead of the $600 list. Since $300 was my reservation price, I derived no consumer surplus. But its absence was made up for when I logged onto Netflix to receive Blu-ray instead of DVD disks in the mail. [...]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Monday that it will join the Blu-ray Disc Association -- its former enemy in a bitter format war -- to make blu-ray players by year-end to tap demand for high-definition home movies.

Makers raised prices after the demise of HD-DVD, but the increases won't stick. This year Blu-ray won the bitterly fought high-definition disc war when rival HD-DVD gave up.