Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

Recently we were asked why we didn't get more excited about the hardware that will deliver 8.5GB single-side writing capabilities to DVD. Maybe we were a little negligent because the engineers at ...

Prodisc Technology has developed a DVD-R disc that can hold 200MB more data than current discs and plans to unveil it at next week’s Computex show in Taiwan. The disc has a capacity of 4.9GB, versus 4 ...

Yesterday I inserted a blank DVD-R disc into my MacBook Pro (2.33GHz Core 2 Duo) like I've done dozens of times before. But this time was different. This time it destroyed my SuperDrive. After I ...

As someone who covers a lot of DVDs, I sometimes take offense at the perception that "direct-to-DVD" is a euphemism for "not good enough for theaters." While it is true that there are a lot of really ...

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 CD-RW ...

Nearly 20 years after its initial release, a hacker has found a way to run homebrew software on an unmodified PlayStation 2 using nothing but a carefully burned DVD-ROM. Security researcher CTurt laid ...

Q: I have a Panasonic DMR-EZ48VK recorder that I recently purchased. This is all new to me. I would like to know what disc-type I should buy for recording VCR tapes onto a DVD disc. Also, is there a ...

I have a MacBook Pro and I have an external SuperDrive. I'm trying to get some data off of old DVD-Rs that I burned in college almost 2 decades ago. Well, they've deteriorated a bit. The data in the ...