Verbatim

Remember the birth of your first child? His or her first birthday? Their first steps? Her ballet recital? His football game? The great times you had at holidays and on those vacations? What about the great times you had with your parents, grandparents or great grandparents? Aren't you glad you captured all of those special, precious moments on videotape? You've got dozens of taped memories stacked in a cabinet or tucked away on a shelf in closet. These family videos are probably the only reason you still hang onto your VCR.

Disappearing Past
The problem is consumer VHS tape isn't be best format to use for long-term storage. Every time you play one of those tapes you wear away part of the image, you scratch the video, you destroy small portions of the memories. If you haven't played those family celebration tapes for years you may even be in for a rude awakening. The magnetic film may have aged and the images have disappeared. The coating may mysteriously peel away or flake off when the tape is played.

About the size of a pack of gum, Verbatim’s 1GB Store ‘n’ Go U3 Smart Drive provides users with a new mobile computing platform that allows them to carry smart software applications, PC settings, files and personal preferences wherever they go and to access them on any Windows XP or 2000 PC.

When Chrysler and Daimler-Benz became DaimlerChrysler, there was much speculation about what that would mean for American car buyers. Among the speculation was concern that product from America’s No. 3 automaker would become unrecognizable to American fans. The global mindset would take over and Chrysler’s cars would become European clones. But, like so much speculation, those fears prove unfounded. If anything, the collaboration is giving us back some of what has been lost trying to compete with imports. If you don’t believe me, take a spin in an all-new 2005 Chrysler 300C. How long has it been since America offered a V-8-equipped, rear-drive, roomy, good-looking, performance-oriented big sedan that is (drum roll, please) affordable? What used to be America’s trademark has all but disappeared, thanks in part to fuel constraints and quality import competition. Now, the 300C resurrects all that we loved about those trademark sedans minus the drawbacks. For those of us who grew up viewing the world from those gargantuan backseats, the 300C feels like home.

Verbatim's 2GB Store 'n' Go Pro USB drive was honored by PC World Magazine with a 2005 World Class Award for Storage and Backup Products. Celebrating its 23rd year, the respected World Class Awards honor products that meld practical features with innovation and reflect the rapidly changing technology marketplace. The winners were selected for their exemplary design and usability, features, performance, innovation, and price.

December 2004--With a product line that spans from inkjet-printable to thermal-printable media; white and silver; standard printable and hub-printable; Verbatim Corporation now offers the broadest range of high-quality printable media that is compatible with low-cost single-disc home printers as well as high-volume production systems.Read more

Optical Storage
Everyone is now delivering 16x DVD burners at unbelievably low prices. Rushing to keep pace, the leading media manufacturers deliver the high-speed +/-R media as quickly as the formats and specifications are approved.

But, according to most senior engineering types we’ve finally reached the upper performance limit for single-sided 4.7GB media. There are discussions of jumping the speed to 18x/20x but among most content professionals there is always a concern about the integrity of the written data at excessively high speeds. They usually write content at a much slower speed so they maintain the highest possible quality.

One of the neatest products that I rapidly adopted is the now ubiquitous miniature USB drive. These little devices are useful gadgets for moving and storing vast amounts of data quickly between computers and other USB-reading devices. About the size of a small “AA” battery, the latest models provide up to a GB of storage. As with other solid-state memory devices, these drives can be erased and reused thousands of times. Read more

January 2004-- Verbatim Corporation, the first media manufacturer to offer a complete family of high-speed write-once and rewritable DVD media, announced that it will begin shipping 8x-speed DataLifePlus 4.7GB DVD+R media this month as higher-speed DVD multi-format burners become widely available. At 8x speed, a 4.7GB DVD+R disc can be filled to capacity in less than 10 minutes. Verbatim 8x DVD+R media has been tested and approved by major original equipment manufacturers of 8x burners such as BenQ DW800A, LiteOn LDW-841S, NEC ND-2100A and Plextor PX-708A, as well as the 8x DVD+R burners announced by HP, Philips and Dell.Read more

July 2003 - Verbatim Corporation just announced that it will begin shipping its new DataLifePlus 4x DVD+RW media in August.Read more

April 29, 2003 - Verbatim Corporation, manufacturer of the innovative Digital Vinyl CD-Rs, announced today a new inkjet-printable version in convenient, 50-disc spindles. Like the original discs, these 80min/700MB CDs combine reliability and high performance with the look and feel of a 45-rpm record-complete with vinyl-like grooves. In addition, the Inkjet Printable Digital Vinyl CD-Rs have a coated label area compatible for printing using Inkjet CD printers. Read more