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Hitachi Develops Multiformat DVD Drive
News Hewlett Packard began shipping the first DVD+RW drive, priced at $599, in September. Hewlett Packard DVD+RW product manager Christine Roby agreed cost was a critical factor. Craig said that she adjusted her expectations because prices had not come...
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
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]
Dell Introduces 'desknote'
News Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it will begin offering 80GB hard drives in a new Pavilion ze5300 desknote model. Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Sony all now offer desknote machines, with prices starting as low as $1,200 (£760...
[February 26, 2003, 16:28]
Apple Takes Early DVD Lead
News PC maker Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard, the leader in consumer computers, started shipping DVD recording systems late last year. Apple, Compaq Computer, Sony and Packard Bell NEC in Europe use DVD-R/RW drives from Pioneer.
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
HP Quits CD-RW For DVD
News Although it is number one in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable DVD drives.
[October 11, 2001, 11:50]
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]
HP Unveils First DVD+RW Drive
News The war over DVD recording standards will escalate today when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on DVD discs. Rewritable DVD drives could do the same this year, some industry...
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
HP Backs Blu-ray DVD Format
News PC buyers can look forward to DVDs with up to 10 times the storage they now have when Hewlett-Packard rolls out machines supporting next-generation DVD technology next year. HD DVD discs store up to 30GB on a dual-layer disc.
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
CES: DVD Formats Face Off
News Its member companies, which also manufacture discs and drives, include Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and Sony. The Recordable DVD Council advances products approved by the DVD Forum, which consists of companies that manufacture discs and drives...
[January 11, 2002, 8:31]
Philips Touts PC DVD-rewritable Design
News The company has been one of the major promoters of the DVD+RW format along with Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard and other members of the DVD+RW Alliance. Philips Electronics has developed a reference design for DVD-rewritable drives in PCs in a push...
[November 6, 2002, 9:17]
Group Doubles DVD+R Capacity
News The Alliance, whose members include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Chemical/Verbatim, Philips, Ricoh, Sony, Thomson and Yamaha, is pushing its own DVD+R/+RW recordable format against DVD-R/-RW, offered by the DVD Forum, the industry consortium...
[October 13, 2003, 17:30]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
News The DVD+RW camp, which includes Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Philips, plans to put so-called "double-layer" DVD recording devices on the market by next spring. But a recent government study found that DVDs and DVD drives are compatible only 85 percent...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
DVD Makers Head For Home Video
News Both Panasonic and Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that their upcoming DVD-related products will be bundled with digital video authoring software, allowing consumers to record and store video on discs.
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
CeBIT 2000: VHS Is Dead, Hail DVD+RW: 1st Public Demo
News The six companies behind the standard, Sony, Yamaha, Philips, Ricoh, Hewlett-Packard and Matsushita, believe the demonstration, which focused heavily on the format's backwards compatibility with all existing DVD players, will establish the format...
[February 25, 2000, 17:15]
Microsoft Picks Sides In DVD War
News Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer and others have already chosen the DVD+RW standard (along with the complementary DVD+R standard). Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is...
[April 11, 2002, 8:22]
HP Rounds Out Notebook Lineup
News Hewlett-Packard this week released a septet of new Compaq Presario notebooks for consumers. The updates to HP's Compaq Presario 900, 1500 and 2800 product families are intended to tempt holiday buyers by offering improvements such as faster...
[October 17, 2002, 16:54]
Flat-panel IMac Pictures Leaked
News Since then, Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Sony have added DVD recording drives to their consumer models. Apple apparently hopes to repeat the magic with the successor, with prices that range from $1,299 to $1,800 (about £900 to £1,200), with...
[January 7, 2002, 8:55]
DVD Groups Hold Their Ground
News The group includes Hewlett Packard, Dell Computer and Philips, all advocates of the DVD+RW format. Consumer electronics giant Sony Electronics announced two new drives that will be able to read and write to both DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs.
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News The DVD+RW format had the early backing of several PC makers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, while consumer electronics makers such as Panasonic and Hitachi pushed the rival DVD-RW format. Although they are both formats for recording DVDs that...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
Toshiba Puts DVD-RW Into Notebooks
News On the desktop side, DVD burners have become more affordable over time, thanks to price cuts by companies such as Hewlett-Packard. Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into portable multimedia studios.
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
