New York – With DVD burners selling almost at commodity price levels, several manufacturers hope to reinvigorate the category by introducing dual-layer drives and blank media, the first of which will ...

Sony Electronics unveiled on Wednesday two DVD recordable drives based on double-layer technology. The internal DRU-700A and external DRX-700UL drives will offer almost double the storage capacity of ...

Other World Computing (OWC) on Thursday updated its Mercury Pro FireWire/USB 2.0 external DVD burner for Mac and PC with a new dual-layer mechanism. The new drive costs $129.99. The DVR-111 system can ...

Samsung began shipping a new dual-layer external DVD hard drive on Monday that can store two times more data than a single-layer DVD and 12 times more than a CD, the company said. The 16X WriteMaster ...

Samsung has announced the latest in its TruDirect external DVD writer range, the SE-T084M. Featuring 8X DVD+R and DVD-R writing, 6X DVD+R and -R Dual Layer writing, and 5X DVD-RAM writing, the drive ...

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Keeping up with the ever-changing DVD-burner market could be a job in itself. Every few months, faster drives are announced, new features get introduced, and competing (and confusing) disc formats ...

Choosing a recordable DVD drive has always been somewhat of a difficult task. There was a bit of initial uncertainty as some wondered which format would win out, DVD+R or DVD–R. After all, each format ...

Now, here is something I do want for my birthday. Its a dual layer 8x8 DVD rewriter from Liteon. Liteon emerged, seemingly from out of nowhere, as a serious player in PC optical drives several years ...

Page 6: More DVD+R and Dual Layer Write Performance Page 7: Final Thoughts and Impressions Now that the DVD format war is essentially over, thanks to the advent of Dual-Format drives, the market's ...

Does anyone have any information on dual layer dvd burners?<BR><BR>I currently have a 2x DVD-R burner that I'm fast outgrowing, besides the speed annoyance I want to switch to DVD+R media.<BR><BR>With ...

This drive belongs to a buddy of mine who used it sparingly with his PIII era laptop. Comes with drive, power cable, usb cable, driver CD, and two software titles (PowerDVD 5 and Nero Express 6).