Even though 2004 was supposed to be a breakout year for DVD recorder sales, retailers never saw the holiday rush some analysts expected. The Consumer Electronics Association was projecting 2004 sales of 1.5 million units for DVD players that can record programs on blank discs, but the final numbers fell...
DVD News 01-07-2005 Verbatim Technology Moves DVD Forum-compliant 4x DVD-R Dual Layer Media from Concept to Testing DVD NEWS-7 January 2005-Verbatim Technology Moves DVD Forum- compliant 4x DVD-R Dual Layer Media from Concept to Testing C1999- 2005 DVD News. Distributed for...
LAS VEGAS -- VerbatimR Corporation announced today that it has begun shipping engineering samples of its new 4x DVD-R Dual Layer DL media to DVD burner manufacturers and their software suppliers for read/write and compatibility testing. Shipments for consumers will begin late in Q1 2005, after the official specification is...
The reliability and longevity of any storage medium is a key issue for archivists and preservationists as well as for the creators of important information. This is particularly true in the case of digital media such as DVD and CD where a sufficient number of errors may render the disc...
Business/Technology Editors COMDEX Fall 2002 RDVD Pavilion #7064 LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2002 Sharing the podium at the Comdex Recordable DVD Council RDVDC press conference today, Andy Parsons, senior vice president for Pioneer Electronics USA Inc., and Tony Jasionowski, North American RDVDC managing director, took a...
The DVD Forum is an international association of hardware manufacturers, software firms, and other DVD users, created for the purpose of exchanging and disseminating ideas and information about the DVD Format and its technical capabilities, improvements, and innovations. Founded in 1995 under the original name DVD Consortium, today's membership includes...
LAS VEGAS -- VerbatimR Corporation announced today that it will begin shipping 1-16x speed DVD-R media later this month. With the ability to record video, photos, music or data files at about 21 MB/sec, users will be able to fill an entire 4.7GB disc to capacity in about six minutes....
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TOKYO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 5, 2001 Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc. (CEO: Mun-Hwa Park) today announced that the company has developed the industry's first drive which can burn all writable DVDs approved by DVD Forum and writable CDs, model GMA-4020B with ATAPI interface (note 1). The shipment will...
here's a development guaranteed to send you screaming into the night: the DVD Forum, in its wisdom, has decided to split the forthcoming 4.7GB version 2.0 of the DVD-Recordable specification into two incompatible parts. Yes, you read that right. The writable DVD mess just got a whole lot messier. ...
Recordable/rewritable DVD formats moving slowly but surely ahead. The four DVD recordable/rewritable formats DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and Video Recording - continue to move forward with increased capacities. The recordable/rewritable formats supported by the DVD Forum are moving slowly but surely ahead,...
More than two years after DVD-Video players and software titles first shipped to retailers in the U.S. and Japan, it's anybody's guess how the struggle for dominance in writable DVD will shake out. The industry consensus is that digital video recorders will be the "killer app"...
A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED You can't know your players without a program. And the motley cast that's populated this odd, meandering drama called writable DVD is harder to keep track of than most, given how many entrance cues the players have missed so far. If you're among the...
The DVD Forum has completed standardization for the first generation of DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) discs. According to the group, the format is a write-once system that is compatible with DVD-Video and DVD-ROM formats. The format is expected to be most useful to developers and manufacturers who need to produce small quantities...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- VerbatimR Corporation announced today that it is now shipping 2-4x DVD-R Dual Layer DL media for consumers. A pioneer in developing advanced DVD and Dual Layer technology, Verbatim has been providing media samples of the new discs to leading drive manufacturers and software developers for tuning their...
DVD News 12-08-2001 Sonic Announces Support for DVD-R Dual Layer Recording DVD NEWS-8 December 2001-Sonic Announces Support for DVD-R Dual Layer Recording C1999-2004 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2. DVD News ...
Toshiba (TSE: 6502) has announced a DVD-R disc that supports Content Protection for Recordable Media CPRM, allowing recording of copy-once content in the DVD-VR format.
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