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.

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.

DVD players are far superior to VCRs by every measure but one: recording. VCRs do it, DVD players don’t. As a result, DVD players might be great for watching a rented movie, but they’re no help when ...

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TOKYO — A group of four manufacturers today announced successful development of a prototype of a HD DVD-R disc, the write-once next generation DVD disc, that can be easily produced at high volume on ...

Prodisc Technology has developed a DVD-R disc that can hold 200MB more data than current discs and plans to unveil it at next week’s Computex show in Taiwan. The disc has a capacity of 4.9GB, versus 4 ...