James Delahunty
22 Apr 2009 21:17
Dell has shipped its first Desktops that contain Qflix DVD drives. Sonic Solutions and Pioneer Corporation develop and license Qflix, which is a technology that allows for the burning of CSS (and DRM) protected DVD-Video to blank DVD-R media, which can be played on a standard DVD player. Sonic hopes to establish Qflix as a standard for recordable CSS and charge royalties for its use.
Dell will include the Qflix drives in ts Studio XPS Desktop, Studio XPS 435, Studio Desktop and Studio Slim Desktop, after last year becoming the first company sell external Qflix drives, shortly before Pioneer did. It is unclear exactly what demand download-to-burn technology can hope for amongst consumers, and right now, only CinemaNow offers downloads that can be burned to disc.
Sonic is currently negotiation with Warner Home Entertainment Group about possibly making download-to-burn titles available from the announced Warner Archives DVD-on-demand service.