Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

I want to buy some more DVD-R's for my new iMac, but I don't want to necessarily buy them from Apple authorised dealers [looking for better prices]. What do I need to know to make sure that what I buy ...

A reader asks where he can buy blank DVDs that can record (and play) for longer than two hours. The answer is easy. And not easy. The easy part: Any standard blank DVD-R and DVD+R (those are the two ...

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If you just bought a new DVD recorder and you’re trying to figure out what kind of blank disks you should be using, read the manual that came with the recorder. Once you know the type of DVD recorder ...

Eindhoven, The Netherlands — Philips Electronics is debuting “All Speed” DVD+R blank media that the company said is the first to be approved for 1x to 16x recording speeds. The product, which allows ...

I have my friend's PPC eMac set up to do weekly backups with Retrospect 6 onto single-layer DVD-Rs, using his 2005-era LaCie d2 FireWire external drive. The backups have been running fine for years, ...

Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like I've done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive. After I ...

(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 ...

International retail prices of blank 4-6x DVD+R/-R DL discs have dropped by about 50% during the first half of 2008 to around US$1, spurring a fast growth in global demand. As the only two ...

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, ...