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HP Cuts Price On DVD-rewritable Drives
News With the Christmas selling season approaching, Hewlett-Packard has cut the price on two of its DVD-rewritable drives. Other PC makers will probably follow suit, incorporating DVD-rewritable drives as an added temptation to buyers.
[September 24, 2002, 7:50]
Philips Aims To Bring DVD-rewritable Costs Down
News Philips Electronics is aiming to use a new reference design to make newer, DVD-rewritable players as successful as the enormously popular everyday DVD player. Two groups of companies -- the DVD Forum and the DVD+RW Alliance -- are battling to...
[October 23, 2002, 7:52]
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]
Microsoft Backs DVD Rewritable Group
News Microsoft is taking a more active role in developing one of the formats in the heated DVD rewritable debate. Mount Rainier was formed by companies including Compaq, Philips Electronics, Sony and Microsoft to enable OS support of data storage on...
[February 25, 2003, 7:58]
Pioneer Expands DVD-rewritable Support
News Pioneer Electronics is aiming to reduce confusion in the DVD rewritable market by incorporating support for several major formats with its next-generation drive. Part of the problem for the DVD rewritable market has been that some of the companies...
[May 19, 2003, 7:49]
Sony Offers Fix For DVD Rewritable Drives
News More than half of Sony Electronics' recently released rewritable DVD drives can't record to low-quality media, the consumer-electronics giant confirmed on Wednesday, but the company has made a fix available.
[November 21, 2002, 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 other major formats in the DVD-rewritable market include DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM, which are being promoted by...
[November 6, 2002, 9:17]
Sony Offers Fix For DVD Rewritable Drives
Talkback I tried this frimware upgrade and it still does not work
[August 19, 2003, 15:37]
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. Representatives from Philips Electronics USA, based in Long Beach, California, said that writing...
[September 18, 2002, 7:30]
CES: DVD Formats Face Off
News The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. As the DVD rewritable market heats up, a lot is riding on which...
[January 11, 2002, 8:31]
Philips: Microsoft's Backing DVD+RW
News Consumer-electronics maker Philips Electronics announced on Monday that Microsoft will be giving the nod to a rewritable DVD format that Philips supports. Microsoft's endorsement of the DVD+RW format could prove important in determining a winner in...
[April 16, 2002, 10:53]
Windows To Embrace Multiple DVD Formats
News Microsoft is expanding its involvement in the rewritable DVD market, announcing on Thursday that future versions of Windows will support all major formats. At the very least, the support for the formats in Windows will mean that people won't have...
[May 9, 2003, 15:58]
LG Drive Writes To All DVD Formats
News As the debate continues over which DVD rewritable format is best, LG has launched what it claims to be the first drive to support all three formats: DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. The DVD Burner II supports the DVD-RW and DVD-RAM rewritable formats...
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
DVD Groups Hold Their Ground
News The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working together, but technology tricks and behind-the-scenes talks could inch the sides toward a compromise.
[September 18, 2002, 14:02]
Panasonic Unites DVD-R, DVD-RAM Formats In A Single Drive, Offering The Best Of Both Worlds
White Papers Leveraging its expertise in write-once and rewritable technology as well as its experience in developing its dual laser/dual lens pick-up, Matsushita recently unveiled the world's first DVD-R/DVD-RAM drive, which will be marketed under its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sony Straddles The DVD Fence
News Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. Sony's move comes amid an ongoing donnybrook in the DVD rewritable market. At the same time, Sony is continuing to support competing...
[November 26, 2001, 9:56]
IBM System Storage DR550 V3.0 Performance Measurements
White Papers The IBM System Storage DR550 is designed to help companies manage (archive and retrieve) data assets in a non-erasable and non-rewritable storage system. While not all data has a requirement to be stored in non-erasable and non-rewritable formats...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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. Two groups, the DVD+RW Alliance and the DVD Forum, are trying to establish their technology as the...
[March 18, 2002, 11:59]
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]
Hitachi Develops Multiformat DVD Drive
News With most of the DVD rewritable formats supported by the drive, Hitachi is in a good position to trump rivals with an all-in-one drive while at the same time pushing aside an emerging format, DVD+RW, which has had some trouble getting off the ground.
[November 6, 2001, 10:39]
