High prices and compatibility issues loom large as makers of recordable and rewritable DVD discs and players shoot for the kind of mainstream acceptance enjoyed by non-recordable DVD-ROM products.

The Recordable DVD Council (RDVDC) will have its cake and eat it too, it seems. At a Comdex press conference yesterday, RDVDC — a coalition of nearly 75 DVD technology developers and manufacturers — ...

The good news: Panasonic has announced that its DMR-E10 recordable DVD player will be in stores by the end of this month. The bad news: any disc you record with the player can only be played on that ...

Sony Electronics will take the wraps off a new suite of DVD recordable discs, including DVD-RW and DVD-R, as well as DVD+RW and DVD+R media today. “We think the discs will be of interest to Mac users ...

With thousands of DVD recorders and DVD recordable computer drives set to be given as gifts this holiday season, one of the most confusing things has to be the multiple formats under which these ...

PARIS — Philips Semiconductors hopes to ignite production of DVD players featuring its write-once, rewriteable format by releasing a reference design that will help manufacturers build DVD+R/DVD+RW ...

Sony has announced a DVD world-first technology - Dual Layer DVD Recordable. For the first time, consumers will be able to burn full-length DVD discs. With almost twice the capacity of existing ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Three rival DVD consortia have given up all hope of agreeing a single standard for recordable DVD and are unveiling three slightly different and completely incompatible home recorders at IFA, the ...

DVD Recording”> Weve written extensively on DVD recording in the past. Alfred Poor covered the basics of competing optical recording standards back in 2001, in his excellent overview. We covered ...

In a new measure of the growing popularity of recordable DVD drives, a major optical storage manufacturer has said it expects worldwide sales of recordable DVD discs to reach at least 320 million in ...

Pioneer Electronics is hoping to raise the profile of digital video recording services by adding TiVo's service to its line of DVD recorders. The Long Beach, Calif.-based electronics arm of Tokyo's ...