Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives 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, ...

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.

Taiwanese disc maker Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE (Blu-Ray Disc Rewritable) discs as well as HD DVD-RE (high definition) discs in the third quarter of this year, a small but ...