TOKYO — Prototypes of DVD+RW drives and recorders that use a 12-cm optical disk were demonstrated here this month by a group of seven companies. Claiming better compatibility with the existing DVD ...

High prices and compatibility issues loom large as makers of recordable and rewritable DVD discs and players shoot for the kind of mainstream acceptance enjoyed by non-recordable DVD-ROM products.

If you just bought a new DVD recorder and you’re trying to figure out what kind of blank disks you should be using, read the manual that came with the recorder. Once you know the type of DVD recorder ...

Earlier this year, I helped my cousin Greg take the raw video footage of his daughter's first-year adventures and turn it into a 20-minute DVD movie -- complete with fading transitions and a ...

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 ...

Chances are you have a DVD player connected to your TV set and you might even have a DVD drive on your PC. But most PC DVD drives are ''read only'' devices that can be used to watch DVD movies or ...

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, ...

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 ...

Kano Technologies on Monday introduced its K8Xtreme, a dual-format DVD+RW/R and DVD-RW/R drive. Kano claims the new 8x drive is the only one on the market that can record at 8x speed onto Verbatim 4x ...

If you’ve been shooting digital pictures for a year or two, chances are you’re starting to look at some way to store them that doesn’t occupy large amounts of the hard disk on your PC. Currently, the ...