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, ...

The DVD+RW Alliance today announced that Microsoft has become its newest member and will be one of nine companies that sit on the Alliance's policy-setting team, the Executive and Steering Committee.

Tossing another format into an already muddled market, Hewlett-Packard will reveal today that it is set to ship the first DVD+RW drive, a device that will let PC users write both computer data and ...

DVD+RW is looking more likely than ever to emerge as the industry standard format for re-writable DVD drives.Hewlett-Packard has become the latest PC vendor to back the standard and will launch a ...

In a move that could influence the rewritable DVD format battle, Microsoft is joining the DVD+RW Alliance, the group that promotes and develops the DVD+RW format. The Redmond, Wash.-based software ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

The 1970s saw a bitter fight over the ideal recording and reproduction system for VCRs. Japan’s JVC in 1980 finally gained the upper hand against the technologically superior Betamax (Sony) and Video ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will support all major writable DVD formats in future versions of its Windows operating system, the software maker said. Native support for DVD-RAM, DVD-RW/-R and DVD+RW/+R ...

Although it is No. 1 in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for ...

When the first commercial DVD drives arrived in 1997, advocates for the technology heralded it as the heir apparent to CD-ROM drives, which were then standard equipment in new PCs and beginning to be ...

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, ...