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Microsoft picks sides in DVD war
News Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and floppy drives.
[April 11, 2002, 8:22]
A Year Ago: DVD group pushes for common format
News Three incompatible formats have confused the market. The industry association announced plans to meet with 29 companies over two days to establish a specification that will insure that DVD drives can read all three major writeable digital video...
[January 12, 2000, 6:02]
DVD group pushes for common format
News Three incompatible formats have confused the market. The industry association announced plans to meet with 29 companies over two days to establish a specification that will insure that DVD drives can read all three major writeable digital video...
[January 13, 1999, 11:00]
LG drive writes to all DVD formats
News The new drive is compatible with DVD players and DVD-ROM drives that support the three formats, and enables storage of up to 9.4 GB (double-sided) of information on a single disk, said LG. As the debate continues over which DVD rewritable format is...
[August 8, 2003, 16:45]
Sony demonstrates Blu-ray technology
News The drives allow for much higher storage density than current DVD formats, which typically hold 4.7GB of data. Sony's drives support DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-R formats. One blue laser format known as Blu-ray is designed to allow a single-sided, 12...
[April 8, 2003, 9:25]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News Blue-laser optical disc formats are expected to take over for DVDs, which -- with a storage capacity of 4.7GB -- won't be able to store much high-resolution digital television programming. Blu-ray Disc is competing with another blue-laser...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Camera makers unveil new media format
News But proprietary storage formats generally have a bad track record, Niebel said, pointing to failures such as Iomega's Clik disks. The market is actually going in the other direction, where it needs to reduce the number of formats," he said.
[July 31, 2002, 12:40]
Toshiba unveils new optical drives
News The new SD-R6112 drives support multiple disc formats, including 2x DVD-R, 1x DVD-RW, 1x DVD-RAM read, 16x CD-R and 10x CD-RW. The second drive, the SD-R9012, supports the 8x DVD-ROM, 16x CD-R and 10x CD-RW formats.
[August 27, 2003, 12:20]
DVDs marry imperfectly with drives
News One of the battles concerns competing formats for rewritable discs and another different formats for blue-laser technology, which promises to provide greater storage than current red lasers can. NIST is conducting the tests in concert with two...
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Just adds more weight to MS Office competitors
Talkback I have quite a lot of archived material in these old formats, which I can't now open after applying this update, and will be converting them to an open standard for future storage. There is a huge amount of archived material in these old formats...
[January 3, 2008, 12:58]
Iomega eyes 800GB DVDs
News The move would allow companies to significantly increase DVD capacity without having to move to next-generation formats. Companies are already squabbling over two formats in development, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, and groups are working to establish...
[May 26, 2005, 10:45]
Toshiba puts DVD-RW into notebooks
News The new Toshiba drive, dubbed SD-R6012, supports DVD-R and DVD-RW formats as well as the CD-RW format, allowing it to record data on both DVD and CD discs. But the DVD-burner manufacturers are currently waging a battle between DVD-RW and DVD+RW...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
CompactFlash cards begin to fade away
News The newer, smaller cards -- which include Secure Digital, Memory Stick, MultiMedia Card and xD-Picture Card -- at one time were more expensive than the older formats, but as they've become more popular and sales have increased, their prices have...
[April 23, 2003, 11:05]
How to avoid obsolete storage hell review
Reviews These proprietary formats work acceptably for day-to-day backup, but they are absolute death for archival storage -- or for transferring files for that matter, since very few computers have compatible drives installed (for a brief period the Zip...
[April 13, 2005, 8:55]
DVD drives that do it all review
Reviews Instead, manufacturers simply started building drives that supported multiple formats -- both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW -- and sales took off. More than half of the DVD drives sold now use this format solely, and another 40 percent support it in...
[October 14, 2003, 13:15]
Teaching old dogs new DVD tricks?
News As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts of the new disc formats on the table in favour of technology that's more than a decade old.
[November 29, 2005, 12:05]
IBM takes Linux to Hollywood
News Increasingly, movie studios and media producers are creating entertainment in digital formats so that it can be transposed easily to multiple formats including DVDs, digital cable, digital cinema and the Internet.
[September 17, 2002, 7:58]
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. The rival DVD Forum, which includes Apple Computer, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer, Samsung and Sharp, advocates the DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW formats.
[February 25, 2003, 7:58]
DVD technology explained
News And while the battle between DVD drives looks set to escalate over the next year or so it could be overshadowed by the battle between rival DVD formats. An at a glance guide to the formats: The man in the street doesn't care about formats.
[May 14, 1999, 16:11]
A Year Ago: DVD technology explained
News And while the battle between DVD drives looks set to escalate over the next year or so it could be overshadowed by the battle between rival DVD formats. An at a glance guide to the formats: The man in the street doesn't care about formats.
[May 15, 2000, 7:01]
