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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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 ...

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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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STMicroelectronics announced it is sampling the STm8000, a single-chip, audio-video full-duplex codec for the DVD and HDD (hard disk drive) recorder market. The STm8000 with its open and flexible ...

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, ...

LAS VEGAS—Despite the industry's high hopes for a volume roll-out of recordable DVDs on the U.S. consumer market this year, consumer OEMs are divided in their support for three major incompatible ...

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 ...