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Pioneer DVD Drives Are Too Hot To Handle
News Pioneer Electronics said on Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks. Drives and recorders that are affected include Pioneer's DVR-A03, DVR-103, DVR-A04, DVR-104...
[September 18, 2002, 7:30]
Apple Takes Early DVD Lead
News In January 2001, Apple switched to DVD-R/RW drives made by Pioneer, also introducing its free iDVD authoring software for consumers and the $999 (£700) DVD Studio Pro for the commercial market. Apple, Compaq Computer, Sony and Packard Bell NEC in...
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
HP Tunes Up DVD Burners
News Some companies, including Sony and Pioneer, have introduced drives that can record using the DVD+R/+RW format and also the competing DVD-R or DVD-RW technologies. The first two "dash" formats are championed by DVD Forum, which is an industry...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
Pioneer Expands DVD-rewritable Support
News Pioneer brought DVD-R/RW drives to market in early 2001, more than six months ahead of DVD+R/RW drives. Pioneer is a drive supplier for Apple, one of the early supporters of the DVD-R format. Parsons said that Pioneer is not joining the DVD+RW...
[May 19, 2003, 7:49]
Pioneer Cuts The Cost Of Recording DVDs
News Pioneer Electronics is spinning out a faster and lower cost version of its popular DVD-recordable drive. Parsons said that Pioneer has looked at DVD Multi but that the company is focused on the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats.
[March 21, 2002, 10:32]
Pioneer Launches First Blu-ray Drive
News Pioneer Electronics announced its first Blu-ray Disc drive on Tuesday, the BDR-101A, which will store as much as 25GB of data when it goes on sale in the first quarter of 2006. The drive isn't expected to appeal to everyone, Pioneer said.
[December 28, 2005, 10:50]
Apple, Compaq Adding Recordable DVD Drives
News Late last year, Apple started evaluating DVD-R (DVD recordable) drives from Pioneer, which the company plans to ship to computer makers sometime in February. In March, the company will begin offering Pioneer DVD-R drives on its Presario 7000 PCs...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
DVD Makers Head For Home Video
News Pioneer also announced it will ship its DVR-A03, a combination DVD/CD drive, by the end of May for $995. The Pioneer drive includes DVD-R, DVD-rewritable, CD-R and CD-rewritable. The Pioneer drive will also bundle Sonic Solutions' software, MyDVD...
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
Apple Eyes CD-RW Drives For Macs
News While cautious about Pioneer's claims, Craig said, "DVD-RW drive is backward-compatible with other drives. In November, Pioneer announced that its DVD-RW drive will come out sometime during the first quarter of 2001 -- exactly when Apple is next...
[December 8, 2000, 8:50]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
News Dual-layer DVD-R products are slated to come out sometime next year, said Andy Parsons, senior vice president in the business solutions division of Pioneer Electronics USA. Pioneer has shifted to drives that can work with both plus and dash formats.
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Toshiba Puts DVD-RW Into Notebooks
News Other manufacturers, such as Pioneer, are also working on DVD burners for laptops. Pioneer has said it expects to launch the drive during the fourth quarter, which starts Tuesday. Toshiba's new DVD burner is designed to turn notebook PCs into...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
Sony Straddles The DVD Fence
News Pioneer is one of the major manufacturers of DVD-RW drives. Such compatibility issues are less of a problem with DVD-RW than with DVD+RW, said Pioneer product manager Paul Meyhoefer. Dell announced in late June that it would begin selling DVD+RW...
[November 26, 2001, 9:56]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News Apple drive supplier Pioneer, which has been one of the big makers of DVD-R drives, announced in May that it would support both formats. Although they are both formats for recording DVDs that can be played on PCs and in many consumer DVD players...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
New DVD Spec Gains Speed
News DVD Forum member companies include Apple, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp. Products using the new specifications will be available by the fourth quarter, according to Andy Parsons, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Pioneer...
[August 9, 2002, 9:31]
DVD Formats At A Glance
News Developed by Pioneer, this phase-change format is based on DVD-R and can be rewritten around 1000 times. Pioneer plan to make the format compatible for playback with DVD-Video. DVD RAM The second version of DVD-RAM, which has been ratified by the...
[November 29, 1999, 16:28]
Sony Unveils Double-density CD-RWs
News By contrast, Pioneer plans to start selling around May an add-on version of its drive that can play and record both DVDs and CDs. Pioneer's drive is expected to sell for around $1,000 (£690), with the discs costing £7 to £15 apiece.
[March 14, 2001, 8:00]
Roxio Boosted By Dell DVD Deal
News Roxio made headlines earlier this month by buying the assets of defunct file-swapping pioneer Napster. Dell will include Roxio's VideoWave Movie Creator -- a collection of tools for editing digital video clips and recording them to a DVD -- as part...
[November 27, 2002, 10:48]
CES: DVD Formats Face Off
News The forum includes companies such as Hitachi, Pioneer and Panasonic. It doesn't preserve the investment that consumers have made in DVD drives that they bought before the spec came out," he noted. The Recordable DVD Council advances products...
[January 11, 2002, 8:31]
Nuggets: Panasonic DVD-RAM Means Business
News The DVD632 is an internal, 6x drive -- better get those speeds up chaps, Pioneer's 10x drive is on the horizon -- reading CD-ROM at 32x. So no surprise that its latest DVD-ROM drive is one of the first retail drives to be able to read DVD-RAM.
[August 6, 1999, 11:42]
Five Years Ago: DVD-ROM Is Here
News Other companies including Toshiba, Pioneer and Panasonic are expected to make DVD announcements soon. The drives are being manufactured now, but "demand is outstripping supply, so they will be delivered in February", according to Nick Sundby...
[January 22, 2002, 6:01]
