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 ...

Other World Computing (OWC) on Thursday announced its Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW DVR 111D optical drive — an external DVD burner that includes FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports. It costs $125. The ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – MacintoshA computer owners will soon be able to reap the benefits of Sony’s latest generation of DVD burners with the new Mac-compatible DRX-810UL/T model. The external double and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next generation of double-layer DVD burners will write up to 8.5GB (4 hours of DVD-quality video) onto special DVD+R DL media. Sony will be among the first to bring drives to market. DVD-burning ...

We previously reported that if you connect your Mac to a new dual-layer DVD drive like the LaCie 8x d2 DVD /-RW Double Layer drive, in some cases it will not be recognized by the Mac. The previously ...