LAS VEGAS--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. At ...

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 ...

Panasonic, Hitachi and Philips’ tactics for 4.7GB rewritable DVD drives will follow distinctly different paths next year, with the former two companies pushing DVD-RAM into the PC peripheral channel ...

Philips Electronics has created a new reference design for rewritable DVD devices targeted to second-tier manufacturers. The goal is to establish a low-cost re-recordable DVD technology that rivals ...

Sony introduced the Dual RW combination DVD+RW/-RW PC drive in a move it hopes will halt the war now taking place between the DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW formats. The Dual RW is Sony’s attempt to end the ...

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) has announced its first slim HD DVD-RW drive for mobile PCs, further extending high-definition (HD) recording capabilities to the IT arena. The new drive can read ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. will begin sampling a low-profile rewritable HD-DVD drive for notebook PCs in July. Dubbed the SD-L912A, the 12.7-mm-high drive, with an ATAPI interface, can write and read ...

Verbatim Corp. will soon start shipping DataLifePlus 4.7GB rewritable DVD discs for DVD-RW drives. The new re-recordable DVD-RW media allows users to edit and incrementally update data on the discs.

Samsung Electronics Ltd. has released the WriteMaster SH-S182D, an 18X rewritable DVD and 12X DVD-RAM writable drive. The speed increase is a five per cent recording time improvement over the industry ...

An industry consortium devoted to promoting rewritable and write-once DVD standards. Founded in 1997 by HP, Philips, Sony and others, it developed the DVD+RW specification as an evolution of the CD-RW ...