Back in 1997, a few years after video game consoles and computers had fully embraced CD-ROM technology, a new optical format standard known as DVD-RAM was finalized. By 1998, the drives and discs were ...

Tokyo – Panasonic put the world on notice here that it intends to make its DVD-RAM recording format ‘the de facto DVD recording standard.’ Company executives invited select members of the press from ...

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. At separate, ...

The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month. At the same time, Sony is continuing to support ...

A decidedly more vociferous Ricoh took its DVD+RW road show here during Comdex/Fall, while Panasonic countered with a forceful demonstration of its DVD-RAM format. The three-way battle between ...

LAS VEGAS — Hewlett-Packard and Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) have agreed to support each other’s favored rewritable DVD technologies in some of their respective products, they said ...

HP says: HP to support DVD-RAM<BR><BR><I>HP and Panasonic are working together to make it easier for consumers to use DVD media between their digital consumer electronics and PCs by incorporating ...

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 ...