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HP Drives Compatibility With DVD+RW
News The significance of HP's announcement on Monday is that its two new DVD+RW drives -- the dvd200i and dvd200e -- will support DVD+R, which has a higher degree of compatibility with DVD-ROM drives than DVD+RW.
[March 12, 2002, 9:08]
HP Backs Both Sides In DVD Battle
Talkback I then saw 'immitation' usb drives, surely not better than mine, its a sony. I got a 64MB USB drive because i spotted it for about £30, which I think is cheap and I wanted to make the complete jump from floppy's (i also opted not the have a fdd...
[December 21, 2005, 18:36]
HP Scraps 3GB DVD+RW Drive
News HP stated that there was only limited market potential for an interim DVD+RW product. The company said that demand for its high capacity drives would be driven by the rise in the installed base of DVD-ROM readers and DVD video players.
[November 5, 1999, 16:25]
HP Backs Blu-ray DVD Format
News Our decision to back Blu-ray was largely because of its capacity advantage [over HD DVD], as well as the interactive features being built into the specification," said Maureen Weber, general manager of optical storage at HP.
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
HP Cuts Price On DVD-rewritable Drives
News The new Sony drives, however, can read and write DVD+RW, DVD+R and DVD-RW and DVD-R discs, while the HP drives read and write to only DVD+RW and DVD+R discs. Two HP PCs come with the dvd200i DVD+RW drive, while one of HP's upcoming Media Center PCs...
[September 24, 2002, 7:50]
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. HP is committed to developing DVD technology that is easy to use and supports the most popular format," Christine Roby, a...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
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]
HP Rounds Out Notebook Lineup
News 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 processors and better storage capacity -- including combination CD-rewritable/DVD-ROM drives...
[October 17, 2002, 16:54]
HP Unveils First DVD+RW Drive
News I give HP a lot of credit for building up CD-RW, and they have the potential to do the same with DVD rewritable. Rewritable DVD drives could do the same this year, some industry watchers believe, as well as spur demand for DVD players.
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
CES: DVD Formats Face Off
News But John Spofford, chairman of the DVD+RW Alliance and an HP vice president, said there are downsides to Multi DVD. According to NPD Intelect, Spofford said, HP's DVD+RW drive, which began shipping in October, was the market share leader in November.
[January 11, 2002, 8:31]
New HP Regime Prepares First PCs
News Pavilion desktops will offer some features not found on Presario machines, such as HP Memories, a software application that lets users create digital slide shows with music and titles and save them to a DVD disc.
[June 26, 2002, 11:31]
DVD Makers Head For Home Video
News And with our kit and workstations, our customers can now capture, edit and publish to DVD, CD or the Web," HP spokeswoman Molly Connolly said. DVD-R is designed mainly for video and is compatible with a large number of consumer DVD players and most...
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
HP Unveils New Spring PC Fashions
News Meanwhile, HP's new AMD-based Pavilion 521n offers an Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz) processor, 256MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, and CD-RW and DVD drives. The 761n will offer an Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) chip along with 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive...
[April 19, 2002, 9:26]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News Although they are both formats for recording DVDs that can be played on PCs and in many consumer DVD players, DVD+RW drives cannot write to DVD-R or DVD-RW media, just as DVD-RW drives can't write to DVD+R or DVD+RW media.
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
HP Launches Four Systems For SMEs
News These features include virtual DVD-ROM support, which allows businesses to access DVD-ROMs remotely, and virtual USB 2.0 media support, which allows remote data transfer. And the HP ProLiant DL165 G5 has the capacity to accomodate four 3.5-inch...
[January 14, 2008, 16:04]
Quotes Of The Week - August 26-30
News Sony's Chris Baker on the delayed DVD. I don't think DVD will have a big impact at first; certainly not for six or seven months at least. We're not doing HP for the sake of doing HP. HP's Olivier Frank denies an NIH syndrome.
[August 30, 1996, 12:14]
Gadgets, Gizmos Top Techies' Holiday Lists
News A few days ago, Hewlett-Packard announced a home PC, the HP Pavilion 9995, which will come with HP's dvd100i drive for rewritable DVDs using the DVD+RW format -- a $1,999 stocking stuffer that will go on sale 18 November.
[November 15, 2001, 10:30]
Hitachi Develops Multiformat DVD Drive
News The DVD+RW media, which HP is also selling, costs $15.99 per disc. Gartner analyst Mary Craig recently lowered her projection for 2001 shipments of DVD recordable and rewritable drives from 900,000 units to 540,000 units.
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
HP Takes Top PC Slot - For Now
News Recorable DVD drives could become a strong suit for HP. HP is one of the main forces behind the DVD+RW standard for recording DVD disks. Nonetheless, he added that "we see great potential for (PC) vendors to take advantage of DVD (drives) plus...
[July 19, 2002, 8:15]
HP Backs Down On DVD+RW Offer
News HP representatives said that at one point last year, the company mistakenly posted a message on its Web site saying that its dvd100i drives could be upgraded to support the DVD+R format. Four months ago, Lorenzetti, a vice president of engineering...
[March 18, 2002, 11:59]
