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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]
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]
HP scraps 3GB DVD+RW drive
News Hewlett-Packard has announced that it has scrapped plans to roll out its 3GB DVD+RW drive, which was due to ship by the end of the year. It said that it would concentrate on developing a 4.7GB DVD+RW drive, which it hopes to bring to market within...
[November 5, 1999, 16:25]
HP unveils first DVD+RW drive
News The DVD-writer dvd100i, which will cost £549 when it hits UK store shelves in September, will be the first commercially available drive based on the DVD+RW standard. The war over DVD recording standards will escalate today when Hewlett-Packard...
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
LaCie USB Slim DVD±RW review
Reviews The drive is rated at 8X DVD read, 2X DVD write and rewrite, 24X CD read, 16X write and 10X rewrite. DVD Video disc performance is also consistent, so you should get a smooth picture when watching movies using this drive.
[March 9, 2004, 8:00]
Nuggets: DVD combo drive from Memorex
News The TriMaxx200 is an E--IDE (ATAPI) internal drive combining a CD--RW, CD--ROM and DVD--ROM drive. Buying a separate CD writer and DVD--ROM drive can get a little pricy. The DVD--ROM drive reads at 4x.
[November 11, 1999, 13:24]
DVD to drive optical market skywards
News Already accounting for 12 million units and a value of $1.65 billion in 1996, the market is due to grow to $5.7 billion by 2003 thanks to technologies like DVD, CD-R and CD-RW, and the breathless pace of change in read-times.
[June 30, 1997, 16:07]
Sony adds DVD/CD-RW drives to notebooks
News Toshiba recently made a DVD/CD-RW drive available as an option on several of its notebooks, and Compaq has a similar drive on its Presario 1800 series. On Wednesday, Sony Electronics announced four new Vaio notebooks that come with a combination...
[February 8, 2001, 8:52]
Sony to debut portable DVD/CD-RW player
News The player supports the CD-RW, DVD-ROM, CD and MP3 formats and comes with a Memory Stick expansion slot, a rechargeable battery and a USB 2.0/1.1 interface. When connected to a television or PC, the device can also become a DVD player for watching...
[October 22, 2002, 8:45]
Philips: Microsoft's backing DVD+RW
News The move could encourage more PC manufacturers to incorporate DVD+RW drives into their systems, as operating system support makes adding a drive go more smoothly, said Dean Sanderson, a Hewlett-Packard marketing manager.
[April 16, 2002, 10:53]
LG drive writes to all DVD formats
News As the debate continues over which DVD rewritable format is best, LG has launched what it claims to be the first drive to support all three formats: DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. LG, which believes that recordable DVD will overtake CD-RW by volume by...
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
Sony’s next-generation DVD writer: a first look review
Reviews However, the DRU-510A will be the first drive to burn DVD+RW at 4X. 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...
[May 27, 2003, 7:56]
Comdex: Pioneer shows off DVD-RW
News A prototype DVD-RW drive is being demonstrated at Comdex this week but Pioneer officials concede the machine may never see the light of day if the industry fails to agree on a format that protects the rights of film makers.
[November 17, 1998, 8:06]
Sony VAIO PCV-W1
Talkback I brought my pcv w1from pc world in jan, and loved it until my dvd-rw drive gave up on me. Called repair man to replace he spend 3 1/2 hours constantly on the speaker phone to take instructions from somone with a manual on how to take it apart to...
[July 3, 2004, 0:44]
Hitachi develops multiformat DVD drive
News Hewlett Packard began shipping the first DVD+RW drive, priced at $599, in September. With most of the DVD rewritable formats supported by the drive, Hitachi is in a good position to trump rivals with an all-in-one drive while at the same time...
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
Philips touts PC DVD-rewritable design
News The consumer electronics giant's semiconductor division on Monday debuted the main guts of a DVD+RW drive, including an integrated chipset, optical pickup unit, firmware and reference design, that can record speeds up to 8X.
[November 6, 2002, 9:17]
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]
HP backs down on DVD+RW offer
News Four months ago, Lorenzetti, a vice president of engineering for New Jersey-based Mobile-Vision, purchased HP's first-generation DVD+RW drive with the impression that the drive, called the dvd writer dvd100i, could be upgraded to support DVD+R...
[March 18, 2002, 11:59]
DVD drives that do it all review
Reviews Microsoft says the Mount Rainier technology in the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn) will make both DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats behave much the same way; but for now, DVD-RAM is a great addition to the combo drive's repertoire.
[October 14, 2003, 13:15]
HP tunes up DVD burners
News DVD players can generally read disks recorded in either format, but a DVD+RW drive, for instance, cannot record on DVD-RW media, nor can DVD-RW drives record on DVD+RW media. The DVD+R/+RW drives record information at speeds of up to eight times...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
