When the DVD format was launched two years ago, most industry experts predicted that it would replace videocassette recorders as America's most popular entertainment toy. So when will that be? Answer: ...

Tokyo – Panasonic put the world on notice here that it intends to make its DVD-RAM recording format ‘the de facto DVD recording standard.’ Company executives invited select members of the press from ...

Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and ...

LAS VEGAS--The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. At ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

A decidedly more vociferous Ricoh took its DVD+RW road show here during Comdex/Fall, while Panasonic countered with a forceful demonstration of its DVD-RAM format. The three-way battle between ...

LAS VEGAS—Despite the industry's high hopes for a volume roll-out of recordable DVDs on the U.S. consumer market this year, consumer OEMs are divided in their support for three major incompatible ...

I’m confused! I recently hired a video firm to cover an anniversary dinner party, with the video to be provided to me on a DVD. I naively didn’t even consider there might not be a “standard” DVD ...