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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A host of new devices that push the envelope on data storage speed and capacity were on display at the Comdex Fall 2001 technology exposition here. In what it said is a world first, Pioneer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...