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 ...

The DVD player market will grow steadily over the next several years, as more mini-component, home theater-in-a-box, and mobile DVD systems are introduced. However, questions remain regarding a high ...

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 — ...

PC World on Sony’s new multi-format recordable DVD drive. Frustratingly, there are two competing recordable DVD formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW (at least each faction didn’t chose the same name for ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- As the personal computer gets shoved out of the spotlight at the PC Expo trade show, a three-way battle is heating up over standards for recordable digital video or DVD devices. Analysts ...

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In today’s Circuits section of the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Sony’s new RDR-GX7, the first dual-format DVD recorder that hooks up to a television. He likes the player, but sorting out which ...

When the story of the DVD is finally told on the Biography Channel, viewers might be surprised to discover a fractured industry that couldn’t even agree on the name of the movie-playback format ...

LAS VEGAS--The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. At ...