Tag archive: DVD-R

With the “format war” between HD DVD and Blu-ray still in its opening rounds, next-generation DVD burners are only starting to hit the upper echelons of the personal computing market. Now, Toshiba has announced what looks to be the first notebook computer to sport a HD DVD-R drive, its Qosmio G30/97A (Japanese), an upgrade to its Qosmio G30 multimedia notebook systems. The G30/97A will sport a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB… Read More

Verbatim announced yesterday that it will begin shipping 25 GB 2x recordable and rewriteable Blu-ray media beginning in July

Toshiba today continued its push forward against Sony’s Blu-ray to be the king of next generation optical discs as it announced a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R disc. The company plans to improve on the specifications of the disc before bringing a HD DVD recorder to market next spring.   The dual-layer HD DVD-R disc is based on the same disc structure as current DVD discs, HD DVD-ROM discs (read-only), and HD DVD-RW discs (rewritable):… Read More

Verbatim(R) 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. To ensure broad compatibility, Verbatim 1-16x speed DVD-R discs are compliant with the DVD Forum's 16x DVD-R Specifications. Leading drive manufacturers such as… Read More