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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]
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]
HP backs down on DVD+RW offer
News Leo Lorenzetti is one of a number of customers unhappy with Hewlett-Packard and the DVD+RW Alliance, a group advocating the DVD-rewritable standard. Four months ago, Lorenzetti, a vice president of engineering for New Jersey-based Mobile-Vision...
[March 18, 2002, 11:59]
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]
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]
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: VHS is dead, hail DVD+RW: 1st public demo
News The first public demonstration of real-time recording and playback using the DVD+RW format -- hotly tipped to replace existing VHS technology -- took place at the CeBIT exhibition in Hannover Friday. We've seen how CD-RW can succeed by achieving...
[February 25, 2000, 17:15]
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]
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]
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. Three competing standards -- DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM -- are vying for market...
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
HP quits CD-RW for DVD
News The computer giant will release no more new models of CD-RW drives and will stop shipping add-on CD-RW drives in the early part of 2002, Dean Sanderson, HP's lead product manager for DVD+RW drives, said Wednesday.
[October 11, 2001, 11:50]
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]
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, 1:47]
DVD+RW format will offer DVD, rewritable media
News Called Phase-Change ReWritable, the 120mm disk format specifies a 3Gb single-sided capacity. The group
[September 4, 1997, 15:45]
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-ROM read performance shows similar consistency, with transfer rates from 5,022 thousand bytes/s to 9,682 thousand bytes/s.
[March 9, 2004, 8:00]
Philips touts PC DVD-rewritable design
News Philips Electronics has developed a reference design for DVD-rewritable drives in PCs in a push to promote the DVD+RW format. The consumer electronics giant's semiconductor division on Monday debuted the main guts of a DVD+RW drive, including an...
[November 6, 2002, 9:17]
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]
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]
