As a California resident, one may consider it odd that they would meet the Governor of their state nearly 7,000 miles away in an obscure town in Germany. But that’s what exhibiting at one of the largest consumer electronics IT trade shows in the world brings about. Of course it’s also noteworthy to mention that the Governor of California is one of the most recognizable movie stars of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The fact that California was a partner state of CeBIT made sense that the Governor would take time out of his busy schedule to attend this trade show. In addition, California is one of the largest developers and exporters of CE/IT products in the world. Plus with Governor Schwarzenegger’s immense popularity around the globe, his presence certainly elevated the presence of Californian exhibitors like ourselves. With our headquarters in Los Angeles county, we are directly aware of the benefits California has to offer when it comes to it’s large pool of skilled engineers and labor, close proximity to major shipping ports, and large concentration of component suppliers, not to mention the excellent weather.

It is for these reasons that I had to travel nearly half way around the world to meet the Governor whose official residence is only 300 miles from our factory. With that said, it was an exciting day to meet such a popular figure that I have watched since my childhood as well as a strong statement for the technological prowess of the “Sunshine” state.

The Plextor PX-DM300 was a joint venture developed by Vinpower Digital on behalf of Plextor of a compact 3 slim CD/DVD standalone duplicator which was first introduced nearly 2 years ago in Japan. Initially, we were chosen to work on this project because of our strong engineering background and the fact that we currently have the most reliable and functional standalone duplication controller on the market. Plus Plextor knew that we could meet their lengthy list of stringent requirements essential in order to brand this unit with the Plextor name.

These kinds of products often have short life spans, especially in the IT/CE product realm. So the fact that Plextor not only continues to offer the PX-DM300 but also is still actively promoting the product is a strong testament to its durability and demand in the marketplace.

We are proud of our association with Plextor as they have a strong reputation for quality and longevity in the optical disc duplication field. Seeing the unit as the only duplicator displayed amongst a bevy of Plextor products, which are wholly unrelated to disc duplication, is a coup de gras for Vinpower Digital in our efforts to become the leading global CD, DVD, Blu-ray duplicator manufacturer.

Munich Hall, which is the largest trade fair restaurant in the world, provides traditional German meals and drinks at a spacious ballroom with 3200 seats. You can see waitresses all in traditional costume and you can enjoy all kinds of delicious food and Bavarian cheese. Best of all is Munich beer in a huge traditional glass which the waiters and waitresses impressively carry up to 10 or so by hand to your table.

Every year when Vinpower attends CeBIT, we will bring customers to the Munich Hall to enjoy this traditional Bavarian style restaurant and all its entertainment and excitement. Munich Hall offers a variety of choices and dishes. Most of them are traditional hearty fare such as Hendl (chicken), Haxn (knuckle of pork), Würstel (sausages) along with Brezel (Pretzel), Knödeln (potato or bread dumplings), Sauerkraut or Blaukraut (red cabbage) along with such Bavarian delicacies as Obatzda (a fatty, spiced cheese-butter concoction) we had ordered that night.

With its dueling live bands playing music in the background, the whole place is full of excitement and cheers. After a few dinks of traditional Munich Beer, people were dancing happily on the hall floor, chairs and tables, and singing along with the music. It is truly a great place that you celebrate in an authentic atmosphere and let the busy trade day come to a relaxing end.

This was my first visit to Europe for the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, so exciting!! Especially since CeBIT is the biggest IT tradeshow in the world.

Even though this was my first experience at CeBIT, Vinpower has participated at CeBIT for the past 5 years. It’s a great opportunity to introduce our newest products to our European customers at the show.

To arrive at Hannover, we flew into Zurich, Switzerland and transited on to Hannover. I saw beautiful Alps from the plane, that’s wonderful. The apartment we stayed is quite near to the “messe nord” (the CeBIT event venue). The weather was quite nice, no snow.~~

At our booth, sharkcopiers and me!

Our autoloader duplicators always catch people’s eyes causing them to visit our booth! We displayed the Cube, Titan lite, and Titan supreme models…from 25 -1000 disc capacity.

We are launching many different kinds of duplicators this year which we received very positive feedback from the attendees during the show. *happy*

My pink pants~ Love it!
My colleagues cannot stop singing the “Pink Panther” theme song around me when I wore it. @#$R$…

Returning from exhibiting at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, which took place Thursday, January 8th – Sunday, January 11th, 2009, it was noticeably lacking in attendance this year, particularly over the weekend. Yet, for those of us in the manufacturing realm, there was a higher concentration of influential buyers and key contacts among those who did attend. So in that case, the show boasted more quality contacts over quantity of contacts, at least for us.

In addition to our showcase of standalone CD/DVD, Blu-ray and LightScribe capable duplicators from the Vinpower Digital line as well as the exceptional Xerox Disc Duplicators with the PC connect “Drag & Drop” feature, we displayed some new products for 2009.

One of the products was the TITAN lite LightScribe standalone autoloader with the only automated flipping mechanism which allows the unit to become a fully automated LS publishing system! This system can operate as a standard standalone CD/DVD duplicator with LightScribe printing capabilities in 100 or 200 disc capacity or as a complete automated copy and LS print station with 100 disc capacity.

Another new product unique to Vinpower Digital on display was our new Network Capable towers. These systems can be connected to an internal network using standard LAN/Ethernet connections so that an entire office has the benefit of sending their image files and/or LightScribe print files to the duplicator.

Plus we showcased our line of Blu-ray duplicators as well as Blu-ray media which is becoming a much bigger player in the duplication market now that the pricing is more reasonable and the format has been adopted by a wider consumer market. We also exhibited our full range of SATA and IDE/PATA controllers for manual tower or robotic autoloader duplicators.

Overall it was a successful show and we look forward to a renewed and more densely populated with quality attendees, CES 2010.

IT Month is the most important exhibition for consumers in Taiwan. The Vendors will introduce new product releases at the show and lower their prices to encourage consumers to buy immediately. This is important now especially since the whole world is under an economic sag. Taipei is first stop of the tour and moves on to Taichung, Kaohsiung ,Tainan. In total, the traveling vendor exhibition attracted around two million visitors throughout the duration of the show in 2007.

The president, Mr. Ma ,in the middle attend the 2008 opening ceremony.

Samsung promoted their LCD TV 5 & 6 Series and BD player at the exhibition but took different approaches in their sales strategy. For example, the original price of the Samsung「BD-P1500」BD Player is NTD22,900 (approx. USD $690). However, the consumer can get a price of NTD14,900 (approx. USD $450) if they buy a LCD TV along with the BD player. Samsung is offering the consumer to get a free「BD-P1500」or get a discounted price of NTD6,990 (approx. USD $200) depending on which LCD TV they Buy.

BD Player of Samsung「BD-P1500」

Also during the show, Pioneer introduced a new Blu-ray Disc. It is transparent with a 400GB capacity (16 layers of 25GB each). Sure it can hold an amazing amount of data, but at what’s sure to be an astronomical price, we’ll have to see if it is worth it or not.

400GB transparent Blu-ray Disc

Although, it doesn’t matter whether the news is about new products or promotion of existing products, we can tell that the Blu-ray market is improving and will have an influence on the end user in the near future.

The Middle East is a blossoming market with tremendous potential and growth in the CE field. It’s for that reason that Vinpower attended the 2008 Gitex trade show in Dubai, U.A.E October 19 ~ 23. We were located in Hall 3, booth number 332, displaying various standalone optical disc duplication products. We showed our new SATA controllers, Daisy-Chain towers, SharkCopier duplicators with LightScribe capabilities, new autoloader series like the Cube1 & 2, the market leading Xerox duplicators, CD/DVD cover printers, and so on.

Dubai’s GITEX is the largest consumer electronics exhibition of its kind in the Middle East giving it great prominence in the region. Vinpower had their eyes set on the Dubai market for many years and this is the fifth year that Vinpower has participated in the show. By providing high-end solution in duplication market, Vinpower has been regarded as the best quality manufacturer in the market.

After a successful Gitex, Vinpower plans to introduce more products in the near future.

For the 4th year in a row, Vinpower Digital exhibited its latest line of duplicator products at the 104th China Canton fair. It’s one of the most important exhibitions in China which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors through the duration of the show.

104th Canton Fair

Through greater exposure from the Canton province news media interview at Vinpower Digital’s booth, more international visitors can obtain information about these new “gadgets” for new BD opportunity in the Chinese market.

Courtesy by GZ Daily new

Vinpower Digital caught a lot of people’s eyes while exhibiting in the consumer electronics product hall with our unique and impressive products. Take the SharkCopier Daisy Chain units for example, which can link several towers together which can produce a large amount of copied discs from a single master. Also, the Titan and Cube autoloader series with Blu-ray drives was a big head turner and is the best solution in the future for optical storage.

These units garnered a lot of attention because in July, the Blu-ray Disc Association and CESI Technology announced the establishment of China’s first Blu-ray Disc Testing Center.

The first China-made Blu-ray music video disc, Ai Tu Lan, was released in April, 2008.

The center will test BD-ROM movie players from Chinese manufacturers and provide data to the BDA. This will shorten the lead time for product development and market launch of fully compliant BD products for Blu-ray Disc product manufacturers. The more popular the BD market is, we believe the price will become more acceptable for common consumers and will raise up the entire market for BD duplication equipment.

Soon we will participate in trade shows in Hong Kong and Dubai in the U.A.E. Both of these shows attract a great deal of attendees from the Middle East. I imagine when most people think of the Middle East these days they only have images of conflict and oil. But in reality, most of the countries in the Middle East are stable and looking towards investments beyond fossil fuels.

This will be the 4th year that we have participated in the Gitex show in Dubai, and we’ve found that not only are the attendees very progressive, but that they are anxious to adopt new technology and find new products to buy and sell. In fact the city of Dubai is looking beyond their oil wells and into becoming one of the primary tourist destinations in the world let alone the Middle East. With their ever expanding communities, office buildings, tourist attractions and cultural offerings, this region is attracting more and more industry and capital.

We will once again be exhibiting at the Gitex trade show October 2008 (Hall: 3 Booth: 332) and if you can find time to attend, you’ll see a region hungry to develop new markets and adopt new products.

Computex Taipei 2008, the second largest ICT exhibition in the world, ended June 7, 2008. It was the first time that Computex Taipei was expanded to 4 exhibition halls. Fortunately, we were located in the brand new Nangang Exhibition Hall, which provided twice the space of TWTC Hall 1. With the spacious exhibition floor, every vendor put extra effort in decorating their booths.

With the intention to increase Vinpower Digital’s visibility on the world stage, we arranged to have two booths at Computex. To best attract customers to our booths in a growing competitive environment, we contacted professional trade show decorating companies for advice. At the trade show, we wanted to present our company image of technology, modernity, and creativity. In order to convey these attributes and decorate our booths well, the sales team had gone through with the chosen decorating company thousands of times on how to display a whole variety of Vinpower products. The intent was to show their best performance and how to better project our poster design, making our booth both vivid and alive! The most difficult times were the back and forth discussions, while decorating the booth because everyone wanted to present the company in the best manner possible. Together with every department, we finally concluded our decoration version one week before Computex reaching a consensus by majority vote. With everyone’s help and passion, we were finally ready to attend this big IT industry event.

This year, we released many new products such as a line of SATA controllers, the mini autoloader- the CUBE, a new model of duplicator-Daisy Chain and LightScribe capable duplicators, and a new autoloader. Whenever people passed by our booth, our new products always attracted their attention, especially the new autoloader and the daisy chain duplicators. With non-stop camera clicks and flashes, it was easy to tell how popular our booths were.

In addition the new Vinpower Daisy Chain Towers picture has been uploaded to Computex’s official website for news releases.

Computex Taipei is not only a trade exhibition, but is also one of the most important information and technology exchange platforms of the global ICT industry. We would like to thank all of our customers who visited our booths. Due to your support, we have faith to make it even better. We look forward to seeing all of you next year.