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.

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.

TOKYO — A group of four manufacturers today announced successful development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc, the write-once next generation DVD disc, that can be easily produced at high volume on ...

Toshiba and three partners have taken the lead in the HD DVD race, today announcing successful development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc. Despite rumored talks between competing companies for a ...

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 ...

Related To: MAM-A INC. MAM-A Inc. expanded its Made in USA Recordable Optical disc product line. The company now offers the full range of Silver CD-R & DVD-R/+R products and 24kt Gold Archival CD-R ...

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 ...

Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at ...

The MCE 8X Blu-ray Disc External Recordable Drive is a desktop optical drive that connects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or eSATA. It can burn Blu-ray discs as well as dual-layer DVDs and CD-Rs. When ...

Digital optical discs such as CDs and DVDs store binary data as microscopic variations in the height of the disc's surface, known as pits and lands. Bits are encoded as transitions between raised ...