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Recordable DVD set to boom
News In a new measure of the growing popularity of recordable DVD drives, a major optical storage manufacturer has said it expects worldwide sales of recordable DVD discs to reach at least 320 million in the next year.
[November 27, 2002, 12:45]
Recordable DVD hits the mainstream
News Recordable DVD is about to explode into the mainstream, with Samsung the latest to confirm to a UK launch date this summer. The phenomenal success of DVD means that recordable DVD is hotly tipped to replace VHS altogether.
[March 30, 2000, 14:41]
Nuggets: World's first recordable MP3 player
News When you're buying a personal MiniDisc player you want a recordable model. Decide to go for MP3 though and it's playback only time. No longer however. Japanese consumer electronics giant Aiwa has launched the world's first portable MP3 recorder...
[February 29, 2000, 12:04]
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. Compaq this week announced a new Presario consumer PC with a combo DVD/CD recordable...
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Matsushita spins up 100GB recordable disc
News The same technology has also been used by Hitachi in a development project and in the DVR-Blue recordable disc format created by Sony and Phillips Electronics. DVR-Blue and other methods using blue or violet lasers aren't compatible with current...
[October 19, 2001, 11:46]
Long wait for recordable DVD, could be a blessing
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. Experts blame unresolved format wars despite protestations from Panasonic that only one standard format for recordable players exists.
[November 29, 1999, 16:27]
News Burst: Long wait for recordable DVD
News It will be at least another two years before recordable DVD players hit UK stores according to experts. Experts blame unresolved format wars despite protestations from Panasonic that only one standard format for recordable players exists.
[November 29, 1999, 11:58]
Pioneer sets recordable DVD ball rolling
News On Friday Pioneer announced the world's first recordable DVD player, a move that could push forward the digital discs' replacement of traditional video recording technology. Blank recordable DVD-RW discs will cost 3,000 yen (£18) each, the...
[November 26, 1999, 8:38]
Recordable-CD prices to increase
Talkback This is more of a question, but will this increase in CD prices affect the US?
[October 21, 2003, 23:21]
Recordable-CD prices to increase
News Citing factors such as supply shortages and rising costs from overseas disc manufacturers, Memorex plans to increase CD-R and CD-RW media prices by between 10 and 15 percent in January. Manufacturing costs have increased 35 percent this year...
[October 21, 2003, 16:10]
New Philips MP3 player is recordable
News Details of the new Philips hard drive MP3 player -- claimed to be the world's smallest hard drive recorder -- have been put on a Web site. Besides playing MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio)-encoded music tracks, the 15GB device, coined HDD100, also...
[April 11, 2003, 9:11]
DVDs marry imperfectly with drives
News Recordable DVDs stand a substantial chance of being incompatible with DVD drives, but the situation is improving with new models, according to an ongoing government survey. NIST tested 14 DVD-ROM drive models, which represented about 60 percent of...
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Apple eyes CD-RW drives for Macs
News After admitting that it "missed the boat" in adopting recordable CD technology for its hardware, Apple is reportedly looking at options for incorporating CD-ReWritable drives into the next crop of Macs.
[December 8, 2000, 8:50]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
News One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that nearly double the amount of data held on one disc. The move from single-layer to double-layer recordable DVDs, rather than resolving the fight, just...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
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]
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. The electronics device maker announced on Tuesday that it plans to replace its DVR-A03 with the next-generation DVR-A04 DVD-R (DVD-recordable...
[March 21, 2002, 10:32]
Format wars heat up with Panasonic DVD launch
News The struggle to establish a de-facto standard for recordable DVD players hotted up this week, with Panasonic announcing it would launch the world's second recordable player this summer which could hamper development of the format.
[January 14, 2000, 14:40]
Sony debuts dual-layer DVD burners
News Sony announced on Tuesday two new drives supporting dual-layer discs for DVD recordable formats, enabling storage of 8.5GB of data. There has been an ongoing battle between two industry groups trying to establish a standard DVD recordable and...
[May 4, 2005, 9:55]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
Talkback I love the idea of a double-layer recordable DVD, but since the industry failed to handle single-layer properly I can't say I'm too excited about using a double-layer format. It sounds as if the DVD Forum did not consider recordable formats at all...
[March 5, 2004, 13:51]
DVD makers head for home video
News DVD drive manufacturers are hoping that some of the magic that has made recordable CDs a big hit with consumers will rub off on their efforts to make recordable DVDs a mainstream technology. Prices of recordable DVD products remain high, but there...
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
