Some troubleshooting tidbits we discovered while working with a LaCie FireWire CD-RW drive: Cannot boot from CD-RW FireWire drive Any bootable discs mounted by the CD-RW drive, including the original ...

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 ...

Taiwan disc maker Ritek says it plans to start making rewritable discs for Blu-ray and HD DVD recorders. BD-RE discs will hold 25GB, enough for three hours of high-def video or six hours of standard ...

If burning movies or other large files to a computer DVD drive takes way too long, Samsung’s new 18x rewritable DVD drive should speed up the pace. Using either DVD-RW or DVD+RW formats, 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, ...

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 ...

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 third quarter of this year, a small but ...

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 ...

The dust has barely settled on the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (in which Blu-ray took the honors), but now the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced two new media specs. The final ...