Supplier sources estimate that PC makers pay $60 to $70 for a 16X DVD drive and about $100 for the fastest CD-RW drive. Samsung is reported to offer its combo drive for about $150, while higher ...

The DVD+RW format took two severe blows last week when Hewlett-Packard and Sony gave notice that they would not begin shipping product this year due to unfavorable market conditions. HP and Sony said ...

Pioneer Electronics said Tuesday that its DVD rewritable drives can cause PCs or DVD players to overheat when recording on certain high-speed disks. Representatives from Pioneer Electronics USA ...

Deleting and reinstalling the controller or channel should fix it. ... and pick up a SATA DVD-RW drive when more become available (which is, according to Tech Report, ...

Pioneer's drive supports 4x DVD+R, 2.4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-R, 2x DVD-RW, 16x CD-R and 10x CD-RW. Pioneer is a drive supplier for Apple, one of the early supporters of the DVD-R format.

The DVR-A05 also doubles the CD-R and CD-RW write speed of earlier models at 16X and 8X, respectively and can be used as a DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drive as well, according to Pioneer. Macworld is your ...

DVD-writers are slowly but surely on their way to being "all the rage," with fans egged-on no doubt by the technologies’ (yeah, there’s more than one) multi-faceted uses. Not only can you store… ...

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of ...

At long last, the other shoe has dropped in the rewritable DVD market. After false starts, the DVD+RW camp has finally started shipping products. Hewlett-Packard and Sony are both shipping ...