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Pioneer Debuts "world's First" DVD-R And RW PC Drive
News US manufacturer Pioneer announced Tuesday what it claims is the world's first combination DVD recordable and re-recordable drive for PCs. Pioneer's drive can also record to DVD-R disks at twice the normal speed, and should ship in the first quarter...
[November 16, 2000, 6:09]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
News The drive, announced on Monday, appears to solve some of the compatibility issues that are consuming the DVD world. The development of drive firmware technology, system LSI technology and HD DVD/DVD/CD-compatible optical head technology enables...
[December 21, 2004, 13:30]
HP Scraps 3GB DVD+RW Drive
News Hewlett-Packard has announced that it has scrapped plans to roll out its 3GB DVD+RW drive, which was due to ship by the end of the year. It said that it would concentrate on developing a 4.7GB DVD+RW drive, which it hopes to bring to market within...
[November 5, 1999, 16:25]
DVD To Drive Optical Market Skywards
News Frost & Sullivan believes that the market will be completely reinvented in that time with magneto-optical growing moderately in sales but losing optical drive share to CD and DVD. Already accounting for 12 million units and a value of $1.65 billion...
[June 30, 1997, 16:07]
Nuggets: DVD Combo Drive From Memorex
News Buying a separate CD writer and DVD--ROM drive can get a little pricy. The TriMaxx200 is an E--IDE (ATAPI) internal drive combining a CD--RW, CD--ROM and DVD--ROM drive. The DVD--ROM drive reads at 4x.
[November 11, 1999, 13:24]
HP Unveils First DVD+RW Drive
News The war over DVD recording standards will escalate today when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on DVD discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, which will cost £549 when it hits UK store...
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
Slimline Toshiba DVD Drive Will Burn Labels
News LaCie announced an external DVD drive that incorporated this feature earlier this year but Toshiba, according to a company spokesman, has an exclusive deal allowing it to include it in a laptop. The multi-format drive, also called the SDR6572M, can...
[March 22, 2005, 16:45]
CeBIT 2000: Samsung Rolls Out CD-RW/DVD Drive
News At CeBIT Thursday Samsung presented a new multifunctional drive, the Combo SM-304, with the ability to read CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and act as a CD-R and CD-RW drive. Combo is a quad-speed CD-R and CD-RW drive, 24-speed CD-ROM player and quad-speed DVD...
[February 25, 2000, 10:01]
Hitachi Develops Multiformat DVD Drive
News Hitachi is coming out with a multilingual DVD drive. The electronics maker announced on Monday that it has developed a drive that can read and write several formats for recordable and rewritable DVD discs, as well as for recordable and rewritable CDs.
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
Panasonic Unites DVD-R, DVD-RAM Formats In A Single Drive, Offering The Best Of Both Worlds
White Papers Leveraging its expertise in write-once and rewritable technology as well as its experience in developing its dual laser/dual lens pick-up, Matsushita recently unveiled the world's first DVD-R/DVD-RAM drive, which will be marketed under its...
[April 21, 2004, 0:05]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
Talkback Everyone knows the cold reception you recieve at a Sony shop, I do hate Sony for that. There product reputation still holds strong but I don't think people are fussing with lables too much now, not as much as they used to.
[December 22, 2004, 14:20]
NEC Lifts Lid On Next-generation HD-DVD Drive
Talkback With my NEC MultiSpin 8v drive still turning my discs, I'll vouch for them any day! Lately, I'm backing NEC. Contributing to my support decision is my late experience of ALL my Sony devices dying. I can't believe they just stopped working.not a...
[December 21, 2004, 14:28]
None Existent Customer Service
Member Review DVD drive died with in a year.battery died after two years
none existent customer service. Even worse, after they finally replaced my DVD drive as it's in the one year guarantee. I end up calling some sales guy in India to get some reponse.
[October 9, 2007, 9:38]
DVD Grows Up - Panasonic High Capacity DVD-RAM
News The company says the first rewritable DVD-RAM drive, capable of writing to and reading from high capacity disks -- 9.4Gb compared with today's 5.4Gb -- will be available early next year. Panasonic's marketing manager John Newman promised a DVD set...
[July 16, 1999, 12:03]
Toshiba Puts DVD-RW Into Notebooks
News The storage-device division of Toshiba, which launched the drive Monday, said it is first to hit the market with a DVD-rewritable drive for notebooks. The new Toshiba drive, dubbed SD-R6012, supports DVD-R and DVD-RW formats as well as the CD-RW...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
DVD Ripper Premium
Downloads It enables you to watch and copy DVD movies on any DVD drive! Combining powerful functionality with a straightforward interface, DVD Ripper Premium provides an easy way to transfer DVD information onto your hard drive.
[July 14, 2008, 18:16]
Creative Ships £279 DVD-ROM Kit
News The Singaporean firm's PC DVD Encore DXr2 is a DVD-ROM drive with bundled MPEG-2 card. Creative said DVD momentum is building fast. The drive operates at a maximum 2x mode of 2,700Kbps and as a CD-ROM drive at up to 20-speed.
[September 3, 1997, 16:47]
Comdex: Pioneer Shows Off DVD-RW
News A prototype DVD-RW drive is being demonstrated at Comdex this week but Pioneer officials concede the machine may never see the light of day if the industry fails to agree on a format that protects the rights of film makers.
[November 17, 1998, 8:06]
AutoRun Wizard
Downloads AutoRun Wizard allows you to configure the tasks that occur automatically when a CD/DVD is inserted into the CD/DVD drive. For example you could run a pdf and html file as your autorun, or you can launch to a Web site or automatically use explorer...
[October 30, 2007, 3:46]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1
Talkback I brought my pcv w1from pc world in jan, and loved it until my dvd-rw drive gave up on me. Called repair man to replace he spend 3 1/2 hours constantly on the speaker phone to take instructions from somone with a manual on how to take it apart to...
[July 3, 2004, 0:44]
