New York – With DVD burners selling almost at commodity price levels, several manufacturers hope to reinvigorate the category by introducing dual-layer drives and blank media, the first of which will ...

Sony Electronics unveiled on Wednesday two DVD recordable drives based on double-layer technology. The internal DRU-700A and external DRX-700UL drives will offer almost double the storage capacity of ...

Other World Computing (OWC) on Thursday updated its Mercury Pro FireWire/USB 2.0 external DVD burner for Mac and PC with a new dual-layer mechanism. The new drive costs $129.99. The DVR-111 system can ...

Samsung began shipping a new dual-layer external DVD hard drive on Monday that can store two times more data than a single-layer DVD and 12 times more than a CD, the company said. The 16X WriteMaster ...

I'm in the holiday market for a dual layer DVD +/- RW drive and am wondering if there is a list that details whether or not each drive has a speed bump locked into it. I've been "backing up" my DVDs ...

Sony Electronics announced on Tuesday two new drives supporting double, or dual-layer, discs for DVD recordable formats, enabling storage of 8.5GB of data. The electronics and entertainment ...

Page 6: More DVD+R and Dual Layer Write Performance Page 7: Final Thoughts and Impressions Now that the DVD format war is essentially over, thanks to the advent of Dual-Format drives, the market's ...

Keeping up with the ever-changing DVD-burner market could be a job in itself. Every few months, faster drives are announced, new features get introduced, and competing (and confusing) disc formats ...

Choosing a recordable DVD drive has always been somewhat of a difficult task. There was a bit of initial uncertainty as some wondered which format would win out, DVD+R or DVD–R. After all, each format ...

Does anyone have any information on dual layer dvd burners?<BR><BR>I currently have a 2x DVD-R burner that I'm fast outgrowing, besides the speed annoyance I want to switch to DVD+R media.<BR><BR>With ...

Now, here is something I do want for my birthday. Its a dual layer 8x8 DVD rewriter from Liteon. Liteon emerged, seemingly from out of nowhere, as a serious player in PC optical drives several years ...

One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that nearly double the amount of data held on one disc. But that victory may not put an end to the feud. The ...