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, ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

Sony has unveiled today four new Multi-format DVD/CD rewritable drives based on its 12th generation optical storage technology. This line-up features three designs and four configurations. Hailing it ...

The DVD+RW format took two severe blows last week when Hewlett-Packard and Sony gave notice that they would not begin shipping product this year due to unfavorable market conditions. HP and Sony said ...

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 ...

In a move that could influence the rewritable DVD format battle, Microsoft is joining the DVD+RW Alliance, the group that promotes and develops the DVD+RW format. The Redmond, Wash.-based software ...

LAS VEGAS -The 41-company RWPPI (RW Products Promotion Initiative), formed to promote adoption of the DVD-RW format, announced at CES that it will investigate the feasibility of developing dual-format ...

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, ...

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 ...

On Oct. 9 we reported that Apple has no plans to support DVD-RW capabilities in its SuperDrive. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t use DVD-RW media in the SuperDrive. The SuperDrive, which ...