Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Lite-On IT is ready for the High Definition era and will show their next generation products for the first time in Europe at IFA 2006. Lite-On will show a Blu-ray Disc (BD) playback device as well as a Blu-ray Disc compatible optical drive at IFA 2006 in Berlin, from 1-6 September. The company can be found in Hall 26, at booth 103, just like last year.

On this year's IFA there will be an important role for High Definition and its related products, like the successors of DVD. Lite-On IT will show their first BD-player, a product for the home entertainment market that will be launched in Europe in 2007. Also, the company will show their next generation HDD / DVD-recorders, with HDMI-output.

Of course Lite-On will also present their latest Optical Disk Drives (ODD) at IFA. Also in this market Lite-On is ready for the next generation of optical storage formats. The first Lite-On Blu-ray writer, LH-2B1S, is ready to hit the market and will be shown on IFA for the first time. Other technologies in ODD that will be presented at the Lite-On stand are LightScribe for direct disc labeling and EZ-DUB for easy copying.