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, ...

With the holiday selling season approaching, Hewlett-Packard has cut the price on two of its DVD-rewritable drives. HP on Monday lowered by $100 the cost of its dvd200i and dvd200e, effective ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...