International brands of optical discs in the Japan market, including TDK, Imation and Verbatim, plan to ask Japanese authorities to ban the import of blank DVD+R/-R discs that pirate their M-Codes, ...

In response to the latest 2005 blank DVD global demand projection by Japan-based consulting firm Fujiwara-Rothchild, CMC Magnetics chairman Robert Wong, indicated late last week that the global market ...

Affordable DVD burners are bringing the ability to put huge amounts of data on single discs closer to home, writes Bill Bennett. CD-ROM still has the edge over DVD technology as far as convenience and ...

Break out a blank DVD and fire up x264! The folks behind x264, the freeware h.264 encoder, have announced Blu-ray compatibility. That means you’ll be able to burn a DVD containing h.264 video that ...

WHOEVER said "technology marches on" must have been kidding. Technology doesn't march; it sprints, dashes and zooms. That relentless pace renders our storage media obsolete with appalling ...

(1) A recordable or rewritable DVD drive that is connected to the computer. It may be an internal or external device. See DVD drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW. (2) A stand-alone DVD player for ...