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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. Pioneer's drive can also record to DVD-R disks at twice the normal speed, and should ship in the first quarter of 2001.
[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 format, DVD-R/W, was unveiled at the Internationale Funkausstellung 99 show in Germany last week. DVD-R/W muddies the water still further by not being compatible with either Phillips' DVD+RW, or the DVD Forum's DVD-RAM,.
[September 7, 1999, 16:28]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Maxell toughens up DVDs
News The 4.7GB DVD-R Pro features the company's proprietary hard-coat technology, which makes discs resistant to scratches, Maxell said. DVD-R PRO satisfies the media reliability and data protection needs of business users, as well as consumers.
[January 21, 2005, 16:35]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment Well it looks as if everything for Windows Home Server RC1 got burned onto DVD-R and CD-R's OK. Slaving over a hot DVD/CD Burner making WHS-Stew Then I realized that my Celeron test machine doesn't have a DVD reader!
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
DVDPlusTool
Downloads With DVDPlusTool users of some DVD+RW/DVD+R writers can set a compatibility option on their DVD+R(W) disks. Please test and report your setup and results.NOTE: This tool is of no use to users of DVD-R(W) writers such as the Apple SuperDrive.
[January 24, 2003, 7:00]
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]
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]
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’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. Like the current multi-format drives coming onto the market, the DRU-510A writes...
[May 27, 2003, 7:56]
