Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives. In a development that will likely cause headaches for some ...

A new standard "BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association)" announced by a corporate group established to formulate and disseminate Blu-ray Disc format standardsBDXL (High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable Discs ...

TOKYO: Panasonic this week announced a shipping date for the first ever triple-layer, rewritable Blu-ray Discs. The LM-BE100Js will begin shipping in Japan April 15. Panasonic says the new ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, ...

Verbatim Corp. will soon start shipping DataLifePlus 4.7GB rewritable DVD discs for DVD-RW drives. The new re-recordable DVD-RW media allows users to edit and incrementally update data on the discs.

In July last year, Sharp showed the world’s first triple-layer BDXL discs with 100GB capacity. While the discs were great (and enough to store about 720 minutes of terrestrial digital broadcasting), ...

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 ...

Toshiba Corp. has developed a rewritable optical disc with a capacity of 30GB per layer, per side and a companion read/write optical head that incorporates a blue laser, the company announced today.

Not that we haven't seen a 12x Blu-ray burner before, but it'll be a cold day in the underworld before you hear us griping about a little friendly competition. Sony Optiarc has taken the cellophane ...

The company will also mass produce HD DVD-RE Taiwanese disc maker Ritek Corp. plans to start mass producing BD-RE (Blu-Ray Disc Rewritable) discs as well as HD DVD-RE (high definition) discs in the ...