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.

Starting this fall, consumers can record hours and hours of cable movies or home videos onto a 5-inch disk, using a rewritable DVD device that costs, gulp, $3,999. That first device is the DVD-RAM ...

Currently there are five sets of letters to keep in mind: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. DVD-R stands for DVD-Recordable which is the DVD equivalent to the CD-R discs that are so ...

Philips Electronics is aiming to use a new reference design to make newer, DVD-rewritable players as successful as the enormously popular everyday DVD player. The DVD player is the fastest-selling ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard will offer frustrated customers who own its first DVD-rewritable drive a chance to trade it in for a model that will support record-once DVD discs--but it will cost $99.

Verbatim Corp. will soon start shipping DataLifePlus 4.7GB rewritable DVD discs for DVD-RW drives. The new re-recordable DVD-RW media allows users to edit and incrementally update data on the discs.

The two camps supporting opposing formats for rewritable DVDs are still no closer to comprising on a single standard. Read Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

with more than 60 percent of all PCs sold at retail now featuring CD-RW drives. But hot on their heels is new DVD technology that promises more than 13 times greater storage capacity. At the CeBIT ...

Most of you know that the SuperDrive can write DVD-RW discs, but Apple (AFAIK) has never publicly touted this feature. They don't officially support DVD-RW in iDVD...although there's a workaround ...

Toshiba is bringing rewritable recording to its notebook HD DVD drives. The SD-L912A announced today can write to single layer and dual layer HD DVD-RW discs at 1x speed. And it can also burn DVD ...

(1) A recordable or rewritable DVD drive that is connected to the computer. It may be an internal or external device. See DVD drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW. (2) A stand-alone DVD player ...