Continuing our coverage of fussy Mac CD and DVD burners, several readers report their experience with different media types and offer possible workarounds. Removing the "plug" Bruce Shanker reports ...

Blank media maker Verbatim, which earlier said it was the first to unveil 4x-speed DVD+R write-once media, said it also is the first media manufacturer to offer DVD+R that supports 1x, 2.4x and 4x ...

Adding more info to our initial reports on this topic (see one and two) Bruce Strange writes: "I archive to DVD-R every day and I've been purchasing apple DVD-R exclusively, because they write at 2x.

Though we’ve already seen a few drives that are capable of writing to BD-R media, Toshiba’s SD-H903A is the first drive that can read and write to single- and dual-layer HD DVD-R discs, albeit at 1x ...

Toshiba today announced the world's first slim HD DVD drive for notebook PCs that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs. Sample shipments of the new drive, SD-L902A, are scheduled to ...

An overabundance of less-than-$50 DVD players clogging store shelves implies scant profits for chip vendors supplying this rapidly maturing market. In response, semiconductor companies, such as LSI ...

Toshiba on October 2 unveiled a slim HD DVD drive for notebooks, the SD-L902A, that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs with sample shipments of the new drive scheduled to start by ...

Toshiba on January 4 announced a half-height HD DVD drive able to read and write to HD DVD and to standard DVD and CD discs, bringing the wide ranging capabilities of HD DVD to the desktop PC. Sample ...

Designed to support 16X DVD-writable drives, the SP8062 photodetector IC offers 10 selectable gain levels spanning a 42-dB range. The part includes four high-speed data detection channels, four ...