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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]
Gear Pro Professional Edition for DVD/CD-RW
Downloads Professional DVD and CD burning software. Duplicate batches of CDs or DVDs using your Windows PC and multiple CD or DVD burners, at any speed, to any media format, including DVD Double-Layer recordable discs (DVD+R DL, or DVD-R DL).
[November 25, 2005, 2:47]
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]
Formac Devideon SuperDrive update
Downloads Formac devideon superdrive is a DVD-R/RW & CD-R/RW combo drive that comes with Formac’s DVD authoring software for Apple Macintosh. The devideon software allows you to convert iMovies and QuickTime files into the format required for DVD creation.
[January 16, 2003, 7:00]
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]
Cool CD Burner
Downloads The Cool CD Burner can burn Blu-Ray BD-R, BD-RE, Dual Layer DVD+R, Dual Layer DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, CD-RW, and CD-R in Track at Once, and Disc at Once formats. The program can also burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, and WAV files.
[March 6, 2008, 15:50]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Active@ ISO Burner
Downloads Active ISO Burner will allow you to burn an ISO image file to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL(Dual Layer), DVD-RW and DVD+RW (including double layer, DL). Active@ ISO Burner software accepts command line parameters to automate ISO images...
[April 15, 2009, 9:37]
DVD Identifier
Downloads 'DVD Identifier' retrieves and interprets the pre-recorded information that is present on all DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW and DVD-RAM media. Even though this information is usually printed on the packaging, the brand name may differ from the...
[February 5, 2009, 15:23]
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 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]
VCD Burner ActiveX
Downloads Burning works with CD-Rs, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW. Get CD/DVD Writer information. Support Multi-CD/DVD Writer. Burning of VCD video from MPEG file or Cue/Bin File. Generation of VCD image (Cue/Bin) File.
[May 7, 2004, 8:00]
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]
Free Movie DVD Maker
Downloads As a powerful DVD burner, Movie DVD Maker can convert videos of almost all formats like WMV, MKV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, MP4, QuickTime, Real Video, H.264/AVC, M2TS, MTS, M2T, etc, to DVD and burn on DVD+R/-R, DVD+RW/-RW and DVD-5/9 discs.
[October 9, 2009, 22:03]
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]
