An industry consortium devoted to promoting rewritable and write-once DVD standards. Founded in 1997 by HP, Philips, Sony and others, it developed the DVD+RW specification as an evolution of the CD-RW ...

Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

Which is the best DVD recorder drive for the Mac? Most Apple Mac computers no longer contain an Apple SuperDrive (Apple’s name for DVD burners attached to Macs), but you can buy an Apple USB ...

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 ...

Q: I have a Panasonic DMR-EZ48VK recorder that I recently purchased. This is all new to me. I would like to know what disc-type I should buy for recording VCR tapes onto a DVD disc. Also, is there a ...

Nearly 20 years after its initial release, a hacker has found a way to run homebrew software on an unmodified PlayStation 2 using nothing but a carefully burned DVD-ROM. Security researcher CTurt laid ...

Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like I've done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive. After I ...