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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mention “DVDs” and most people immediately think of their movie collections. But beyond movies and videos, DVD technology offers reams of data storage for PCs — a solid method to archive, back up 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, ...