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Pioneer debuts "world's first" DVD-R and RW PC drive
News The device can read and write to DVD-R (write once) DVD-RW (re-recordable), CD-RW and CD-R formats. A DVD-RW disk can be rewritten to at least 1,000 times. DVD-RW is a rival standard to DVD-RAM, which lets a DVD be rewritten at least 100,000 times.
[November 16, 2000, 6:09]
Toshiba puts DVD-RW into notebooks
News The new Toshiba drive, dubbed SD-R6012, supports DVD-R and DVD-RW formats as well as the CD-RW format, allowing it to record data on both DVD and CD discs. But the DVD-burner manufacturers are currently waging a battle between DVD-RW and DVD+RW...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
Philips: Microsoft's backing DVD+RW
News As previously reported, Microsoft will demonstrate software this week at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that will support the DVD+RW format in its next version of Windows. The software giant will make an announcement at the conference...
[April 16, 2002, 10:53]
DVD drives that do it all review
Reviews Last year, we expected DVD+R/RW burners to overtake the competition and thought that the establishment of a single standard would be critical for rapid adoption. We were half right: DVD+R/RW drives now dominate the desktop, but we still don't have...
[October 14, 2003, 13:15]
DVDPlusTool
Downloads With DVDPlusTool users of some DVD+RW/DVD+R writers can set a compatibility option on their DVD+R(W) disks. This is sometimes called 'compatibility bitsetting'.DVDPlusTool can also be used to wipe a DVD+RW disk using a 'background...
[January 24, 2003, 7:00]
Group doubles DVD+R capacity
News The DVD+RW Alliance, which includes major PC and consumer electronics makers, last week demonstrated a technique that promises to nearly double storage capacity on DVD+R discs. The Alliance, whose members include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi...
[October 13, 2003, 17:30]
New DVD spec gains speed
News The DVD+RW Alliance, a group of companies advocating the DVD+RW format for recording and rewriting files onto DVD discs, announced the 4X DVD+R specification on Thursday. Support for DVD+R is a feature of the DVD+RW format.
[August 9, 2002, 9:31]
Sony unveils multi-format DVD recorder
News The Sony RDR-GX7 will be the only home DVD recorder that supports the DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-R recording formats, the company claimed in a statement. Most home DVD recorders, like Philip's DVDR 890, can only write to recordable discs in either the...
[April 23, 2003, 13:57]
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]
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]
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]
LGE GSA-4040B review
Reviews LGE's GSA-4040B is the first and only optical drive on the market to support writing for all five of the DVD flavours: DVD-R and DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM. Not for long, though: Iomega has announced its own multi-format DVD-RAM-writing...
[August 4, 2003, 5:33]
Sony’s next-generation DVD writer: a first look review
Reviews Less than a year later, TDK, Verbatim and Pioneer are bringing to market new multi-format drives with support for DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW, as well as CD-R/-RW. However, the DRU-510A will be the first drive to burn DVD+RW at 4X.
[May 27, 2003, 7:56]
Apple will support rival DVD format
News Apple, a longtime supporter of the DVD-R format, confirmed on Monday that it is adding support for DVD+R and DVD+RW into the Macintosh operating system with Panther, the new version of Mac OS X that ships next week.
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
Sony DRU-530A: a first look review
Reviews When it was released in June 2003, Sony's DRU-510A was the fastest and finest multi-format DVD drive on the market -- and the only one that wrote DVD+RW media at 4X. Its successor, the DRU-530A, due out in December, gives other formats a boost...
[November 18, 2003, 7:35]
Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz review
Reviews The 10.4kg iMac consists of a half-dome base that contains the SuperDrive (CD-RW/DVD-R) and external expansion ports. The drives remain unchanged on the 17in.iMac; it still comes standard with an 80GB hard drive and Apple's DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive.
[December 2, 2003, 9:25]
NEC gives a 4x for DVD writer
News The MultiSpin ND-1100A drive, announced on Tuesday, claims to be the first to take advantage of the 4x DVD+R specification, released in early August by the DVD+RW Alliance. The drive is the latest to attempt to bridge a yawning gap in the DVD...
[October 2, 2002, 14:09]
The dirt on DVD review
Reviews DVD-recording formats include DVD-R (write once), DVD-RW (rewriteable), DVD+R (write once), DVD+RW (rewriteable) and DVD-RAM (rewriteable). DVD-RAM is primarily a data storage format, while the DVD-R/-RW and the more recent DVD+R/+RW standards are...
[January 10, 2003, 9:59]
DVD groups hold their ground
News The DVD+RW Alliance, an industry group promoting one of the chief DVD recording formats, came away from a quarterly meeting last week resolved to hold its ground in the standards fight. The DVD Forum, which promotes the DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM...
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Sony debuts dual-layer DVD burners
News Both drives read and write to DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R and CD-RW discs as well as to DVD+/-R dual and double-layer discs. The two groups, DVD+RW Alliance and DVD Forum, have established their own two-layer DVD disc formats, which they identify using...
[May 4, 2005, 9:55]
