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 ...

Bottomline : It comes loaded with features ahead of standard ones. In an era when USB 3.0 is available, even in budget laptops, lack of support for it is uncanny. Asus U-Lite DVD-RW drive serves as a ...

(DVD-Read Write) A rewritable DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD Forum. Also called "DVD Dash RW" and "DVD Minus RW," DVD-RW uses phase change recording. The media hold 4.7GB per side and ...

The Addonics Pocket DVD-RW writes DVD-R and DVD-RW media at 1X and costs a bundle, which makes it tough to recommend for everyday use. Despite reliable performance, USB 2.0 support, and a great ...

The Win32 binaries provided by the author are for 6.0. I only needed this to try setting a custom spare area for a BD-RE using dvd+rw-format, which meant needing >=7.0. I tested x64 dvd+rw-format and ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That's the motto of TDK's multiple-personality 440N Indi DVD drive. Instead of supporting either DVD-R/-RW or DVD+R/+RW, it does both--a nifty hedge against ...

DVD RWs (Digital Versatile Disc Re-Writable) are a convenient and efficient method to store and share large amounts of data. Before using a DVD RW, it’s essential to format it to prepare the disc for ...

The war over DVD recording standards will escalate Monday when Hewlett-Packard unwraps the details on its first DVD drive for PCs that lets people repeatedly record on discs. The DVD-writer dvd100i, ...

DVD-RW discs are called "rewritable" because they can be written to and erased multiple times. When these discs are formatted with the Microsoft-recommended Live File System, they act similar to USB ...

DVD-ROM, as its name implies, is a “read-only memory” format. Your computer can read a disc’s contents, but it cannot save data to one. DVD-RAM (DVD random-access memory) and DVD-RW (DVD rewritable) ...

When you try to eject a CD or DVD, you see a message – An error occurred while ejecting DVD RW Drive, then this post offers some suggestions that may help you ...

Nick248 asked the Answer Line forum about optical drives. I figured it was time to go over the various types of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs, and the drives that read and write to them. [Email your ...