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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]
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. At the Ceatec trade show in Japan, the Alliance demonstrated DVD+R...
[October 13, 2003, 17:30]
Pioneer weighs in with rival DVD format
News The battle between manufacturers over rival DVD formats has stepped up a notch with the announcement of a brand new format from electronics giant Pioneer. The format, DVD-R/W, was unveiled at the Internationale Funkausstellung 99 show in Germany...
[September 7, 1999, 16:28]
Maxell toughens up DVDs
News Maxell this week announced a new line of DVD products that it says are scratch- and dust-resistant. The 4.7GB DVD-R Pro features the company's proprietary hard-coat technology, which makes discs resistant to scratches, Maxell said.
[January 21, 2005, 16:35]
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. The DVD+R/+RW drives record information at speeds of up to eight times (8x) the normal DVD...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
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]
Plato DVD Copy
Downloads Want to save your favorite DVD Movie disc or make a better copy for your scratched DVD discs? Yes, now, with Plato DVD Copy, you could backup your favorite DVD movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Disc in 30 minutes, and do not have to learn any basic...
[July 17, 2009, 4:25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment Slaving over a hot DVD/CD Burner making WHS-Stew Well it looks as if everything for Windows Home Server RC1 got burned onto DVD-R and CD-R's OK. Then I realized that my Celeron test machine doesn't have a DVD reader!
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
New DVD spec gains speed
News A DVD industry group is pushing a new specification that will cut recording times on DVD+R discs. 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...
[August 9, 2002, 9:31]
Great writer!
Member Review When I put CD-R or DVD-R in, it set auto formatting within few seconds; also, I've burned 2 hour of video from my digital camcorder to PC via ASUS ATI Radeon 9800XT/TVD with TV in and out and it worked great on my Philips DVD player with playback...
[September 28, 2004, 14:52]
LG GSA-H55N review
Reviews The GSA-H55N has a maximum write speed of 20x for DVD+R and -R media; write and read speeds for other media vary up to maximum of 48x for CD-R. Providing good-quality media are used and discs are handled with care (that is, fingerprints, dirt and...
[July 30, 2007, 11:07]
NEC gives a 4x for DVD writer
News NEC has launched a faster DVD writer which, it claims, is the first to author both DVD+R and DVD-R rewritable formats at 4x speed. This doubles the previous speed at which DVD+R discs could be written, allowing an hour of DVD video to be burned in...
[October 2, 2002, 14:09]
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]
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]
Sony’s next-generation DVD writer: a first look review
Reviews Back in September 2002, Sony announced the first multi-format DVD drive, the DRU-500A. 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...
[May 27, 2003, 7:56]
