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.

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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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Pioneer Electronics is aiming to give the recordable DVD and PC markets a boost with a drive for notebooks. The electronics maker expects to launch a recordable DVD drive for notebook PCs in the ...

After a successful 2002, the DVD Entertainment Group trade org said it will spend 2003 pushing recordable DVDs and music on DVD with a range of con-sumer education and marketing initiatives.

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The demand for DVD recordable decks look more promising in the near term than digital video recorders (DVR), according to a report issued during the CEA Industry Summit, held at the La Costa Resort, ...

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 ...

With word that Pioneer New Media Technologies will be shipping initial orders of its Pioneer DVR-103 recordable DVD/CD drive by the end of February, manufacturing and distribution experts believe that ...

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 ...