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Hitachi spins out CD-ROM, DVD drives
News DVD drives will be manufactured toward the end of this year, and the first DVD-RAM drives are likely to be available from the end of 1997. Hitachi will continue to produce eight-speed CD-ROM drives until demand dries in mid-1997; mass produce 12...
[September 20, 1996, 15:56]
Nuggets: DVD drives goin' cheap...
News Samsung has announced a trio of budget DVD/CD-ROM drives.and about time. DVD trio slash prices The SD-606 is a 6x internal DVD-ROM drive, with transfer rates of up to 8,100KB/sec and 110ms access time, selling for around £50.
[August 2, 1999, 13:54]
DVD drives that do it all review
Reviews We were half right: DVD+R/RW drives now dominate the desktop, but we still don't have a single standard. Instead, manufacturers simply started building drives that supported multiple formats -- both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW -- and sales took off.
[October 14, 2003, 13:15]
HP cuts price on DVD-rewritable drives
News With the Christmas selling season approaching, Hewlett-Packard has cut the price on two of its DVD-rewritable drives. Other PC makers will probably follow suit, incorporating DVD-rewritable drives as an added temptation to buyers.
[September 24, 2002, 7:50]
Apple, Compaq adding recordable DVD drives
News Compaq will provide software with the drives that will allow consumers to add menu and chapter options to their DVD-R discs similar to those found on professional DVD movies. In March, the company will begin offering Pioneer DVD-R drives on its...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Pioneer DVD drives are too hot to handle
News Pioneer Electronics said on Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks. Representatives from Philips Electronics USA, based in Long Beach, California, said that writing...
[September 18, 2002, 7:30]
Five years ago: First DVD drives mean business
News Hitachi said today that it still plans to release DVD drives to PC OEMs by year-end, saying that the roadblocks faced by Sony, Philips and others in home user systems will not apply to drives targeting the replacement CD-ROM and magneto-optical...
[September 2, 2001, 8:00]
Sony offers fix for DVD rewritable drives
News More than half of Sony Electronics' recently released rewritable DVD drives can't record to low-quality media, the consumer-electronics giant confirmed on Wednesday, but the company has made a fix available.
[November 21, 2002, 8:00]
Sony adds DVD/CD-RW drives to notebooks
News On Wednesday, Sony Electronics announced four new Vaio notebooks that come with a combination DVD and CD-rewritable drive. Toshiba recently made a DVD/CD-RW drive available as an option on several of its notebooks, and Compaq has a similar drive on...
[February 8, 2001, 8:52]
DVD drives Comdex announcements
News Among the company's latest products are the Net MD Walkman Recorder and a combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive. The DVD+RW drive can also be configured into PCs through HP's build-to-order program and is available separately.
[November 13, 2001, 9:57]
Sony offers fix for DVD rewritable drives
Talkback I tried this frimware upgrade and it still does not work
[August 19, 2003, 15:37]
PCs: CD and DVD Drives
White Papers Yet compact discs and DVDs also let the PC pull extra shifts as both a stereo and home theater, which presents new problems: PCs, CD players, and DVD players all speak slightly different languages. That forces the user to create the discs slightly...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
One Year Ago: Hitachi sees DVD-ROM sales rocketing
News Japanese giant Hitachi said today it expects widespread uptake of DVD-ROM drives in the next few months. We expect most high-end machines will offer DVD-ROM instead of CD-ROM drives in the third quarter and we're talking to the big players," said a...
[May 29, 1998, 6:00]
Recordable DVD set to boom
News In a new measure of the growing popularity of recordable DVD drives, a major optical storage manufacturer has said it expects worldwide sales of recordable DVD discs to reach at least 320 million in the next year.
[November 27, 2002, 12:45]
HP tunes up DVD burners
News The DVD+R/+RW drives record information at speeds of up to eight times (8x) the normal DVD playback speed, according to HP. Some companies, including Sony and Pioneer, have introduced drives that can record using the DVD+R/+RW format and also the...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
Apple takes early DVD lead
News Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. The market researcher estimated the number of DVD recording drives shipped...
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
Sony straddles the DVD fence
News Dell announced in late June that it would begin selling DVD+RW drives with its PCs this year, but the company has yet to do so. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should be available to...
[November 26, 2001, 9:56]
DVDs marry imperfectly with drives
News Recordable DVDs stand a substantial chance of being incompatible with DVD drives, but the situation is improving with new models, according to an ongoing government survey. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of...
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Five years ago: DVD-ROM is here
News The drives are being manufactured now, but "demand is outstripping supply, so they will be delivered in February", according to Nick Sundby, Hitachi's DVD product marketing manager. Hitachi's Sundby added DVD-RAM drives will sample at the end of...
[January 22, 2002, 6:01]
Panasonic LF-D521 DVD Burner II review
Reviews In our performance tests, the DVD Burner II proved adequate if not impressive at writing data to DVD-RW, but lagged behind 4X drives such as the Pioneer DVR-A05 and Sony DRU-500A when writing movie files.
[March 17, 2003, 15:00]
