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. In fact, Apple has been expanding its role in video and DVD production...
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system. Apple, a longtime supporter of the DVD-R format, confirmed on Monday that it is adding...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
Apple, Compaq Adding Recordable DVD Drives
News For Apple, DVD recording is a natural fit, particularly since the company already offers movie-editing software on all Macs. Late last year, Apple started evaluating DVD-R (DVD recordable) drives from Pioneer, which the company plans to ship to...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Pioneer Expands DVD-rewritable Support
News Pioneer is a drive supplier for Apple, one of the early supporters of the DVD-R format. Part of the problem for the DVD rewritable market has been that some of the companies lining up against each other have significant clout in the market, such as...
[May 19, 2003, 7:49]
Philips: Microsoft's Backing DVD+RW
News A group of companies called the DVD Forum, which includes Apple, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp, advocates the DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW formats. Consumer-electronics maker Philips Electronics announced on Monday that Microsoft will be...
[April 16, 2002, 10:53]
Microsoft Picks Sides In DVD War
News But Apple Computer, Compaq Computer and several Asian manufacturers have championed DVD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RAM. But PCs with drives based on the DVD-RW format actually came into the market first, ushered in by Apple and Compaq.
[April 11, 2002, 8:22]
DVD Groups Hold Their Ground
News The DVD Forum, whose members include Apple, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp -- promote and develop the DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW formats. The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working...
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Mac OS X - It Hits, It Misses
News The next-generation Mac operating system, which will be released Saturday, will not support CD-rewritable, DVD or DVD-recording drives -- key elements of recent Apple marketing campaigns. Some Mac enthusiasts also may be perplexed by the lack of...
[March 21, 2001, 8:24]
Apple Threatens DVD Burners With DMCA
News Apple does sell an iDVD upgrade on its site for £14, but it lists as a requirement a Macintosh equipped with an internal DVD-RW drive. In response, Other World Computing began bundling a product called DVD Enabler with its external Mercury Pro DVD...
[August 29, 2002, 8:10]
Apple Makes 54Mbps Standard On EMac
News The $999 (£618) eMac comes with an 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor, 128MB of SDRAM, a 60GB hard drive, a CD-rewritable/DVD combo drive, a 32MB ATI Technologies' 7500 graphics accelerator, 56Kbps modem, 10/100 networking USB 1.1 and FireWire ports, and...
[May 6, 2003, 16:01]
Apple Delivers Top-of-line Mac
News The 733MHz Power Mac G4 comes with a Pioneer-manufactured SuperDrive, which can read and record CD and DVD media, and comes with Apple's iDVD authoring software. The 733MHz Power Mac G4 is available for $3,499 with 256KB of Level 2 on-chip cache...
[February 20, 2001, 7:54]
Microsoft Backs DVD Rewritable Group
News The rival DVD Forum, which includes Apple Computer, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp, advocates the DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW formats. Microsoft is taking a more active role in developing one of the formats in the heated DVD rewritable debate.
[February 25, 2003, 7:58]
Apple Says OS X Sales Strong In UK
News CD-R support will appear next month, with DVD-R on its way later in the spring. Apple Computer has sold "almost all" of the UK allocation of its new operating system, OS X, over the weekend, the company said on Monday.
[March 27, 2001, 7:15]
Pioneer Cuts The Cost Of Recording DVDs
News Pioneer Electronics is spinning out a faster and lower cost version of its popular DVD-recordable drive. The electronics device maker announced on Tuesday that it plans to replace its DVR-A03 with the next-generation DVR-A04 DVD-R (DVD-recordable...
[March 21, 2002, 10:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Odd moves from youth icon MTV today, who announced that it was going to start selling branded PCs based on AMD's processors, LCD screens and DVD drives. In a week that's seen Apple get uncounted acres of press coverage by putting some -- let's be...
[January 14, 2002, 8:59]
FireWire Could Set IMac Ablaze
News Code-named Kihei, the system will include FireWire connectivity as well as DVD hardware. FireWire connectivity has helped ignite sales of Apple's professional desktop Macs and (through third-party PC Cards) PowerBooks.
[August 25, 1999, 9:54]
Red Hat Recommends Windows For Consumers
Talkback SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) Apple Studio Display (17" flat panel) Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. Oh! And one more thing! The reason that no one mentions OSX has nothing to do with it's ability. It's because that's comparing apples to oranges.
[January 5, 2004, 22:03]
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]
How To Convert DVDs To IPod/iPhone/Apple TV/PSP/MP4 Player And Other Portab
Forum So how do you transfer your existing DVD collection to iPod/iPhone/Apple TV/PSP/MP4 Player and other portable devices on Mac? You just need to download a good Mac DVD Ripper or Mac DVD Converter program.
[July 28, 2008, 12:31]
