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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]
Recordable DVD Hits The Mainstream
News Recordable DVD is about to explode into the mainstream, with Samsung the latest to confirm to a UK launch date this summer. The phenomenal success of DVD means that recordable DVD is hotly tipped to replace VHS altogether.
[March 30, 2000, 14:41]
News Burst: Long Wait For Recordable DVD
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. Experts blame unresolved format wars despite protestations from Panasonic that only one standard format for recordable players exists.
[November 29, 1999, 11:58]
Long Wait For Recordable DVD, Could Be A Blessing
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. Mercer believes Sony's second generation MiniDisc format, MD Data2 media , will also compete with recordable DVD.
[November 29, 1999, 16:27]
Apple, Compaq Adding Recordable DVD Drives
News Compaq this week announced a new Presario consumer PC with a combo DVD/CD recordable/rewritable drive. In 2001, market researcher Dataquest expects manufacturers will ship 1.8 million DVD recordable drives -- for all formats -- up from 585,000...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
What Is DVD Recordable?
White Papers DVD Recordable (DVD-R) technology allows anyone to create DVD discs at the desktop. Similar in concept to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R), DVD-R is a write-once medium that can contain any type of information normally stored on mass produced DVD...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Pioneer Sets Recordable DVD Ball Rolling
News On Friday Pioneer announced the world's first recordable DVD player, a move that could push forward the digital discs' replacement of traditional video recording technology. Blank recordable DVD-RW discs will cost 3,000 yen (£18) each, the...
[November 26, 1999, 8:38]
Introduction To DVD Recordable (DVD-R) What Is DVD Recordable?
White Papers DVD Recordable (DVD-R) technology allows anyone to create DVD discs at the desktop. Similar in concept to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R), DVD-R is a write-once medium that can contain any type of information normally stored on mass produced DVD...
[October 9, 2003, 8:06]
HP Drives Compatibility With DVD+RW
News Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday two new DVD+RW drives that aim to address one of the major criticisms of the DVD rewritable and recordable formats: compatibility. DVD+RW is one of several formats competing to be the standard for rewritable and...
[March 12, 2002, 9:08]
Hitachi Develops Multiformat DVD Drive
News Gartner analyst Mary Craig recently lowered her projection for 2001 shipments of DVD recordable and rewritable drives from 900,000 units to 540,000 units. The electronics maker announced on Monday that it has developed a drive that can read and...
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
DVD Makers Head For Home Video
News DVD drive manufacturers are hoping that some of the magic that has made recordable CDs a big hit with consumers will rub off on their efforts to make recordable DVDs a mainstream technology. Prices of recordable DVD products remain high, but there...
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
Format Wars Heat Up With Panasonic DVD Launch
News The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing it would launch the world's second recordable player this summer which could hamper development of the format.
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
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. The device can read and write to DVD-R (write once) DVD-RW (re-recordable), CD-RW and CD-R formats.
[November 16, 2000, 6:09]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
News One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that nearly double the amount of data held on one disc. The skirmish began a few years ago, when a group of companies did not like the recordable DVD...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
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. I don't think it's a negative thing; I don't think it's a positive thing," said Andy...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
HP Tunes Up DVD Burners
News In the latest salvo in the struggle between recordable DVD formats, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced faster DVD burners based on its favoured technology. Sales of recordable DVD media using that format increased from 2 percent of the US retail...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
Sony Debuts Dual-layer DVD Burners
News Sony announced on Tuesday two new drives supporting dual-layer discs for DVD recordable formats, enabling storage of 8.5GB of data. There has been an ongoing battle between two industry groups trying to establish a standard DVD recordable and...
[May 4, 2005, 9:55]
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]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
Talkback I love the idea of a double-layer recordable DVD, but since the industry failed to handle single-layer properly I can't say I'm too excited about using a double-layer format. It sounds as if the DVD Forum did not consider recordable formats at all...
[March 5, 2004, 13:51]
LG Drive Writes To All DVD Formats
News LG, which believes that recordable DVD will overtake CD-RW by volume by 2005 and will dominate the market by 2006, says that the Super Multi Write Plus Drive will reduce confusion or risk when a customer is deciding which format is better.
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
