Never thought I'd see a new Blu-ray drive.... especially one with claims of improved recording quality. Highlights of the new drive include its up to 16x speed recording performance on BD-R discs ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands — Philips Electronics is spinning what it calls an “all-speed” DVD+R disk capable of recording data up to 16x speeds. Scheduled for retail launch at the end of August in the U.S ...

NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiary in Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe), today introduced a chipset for rewritable DVD drives that supports 16x recording speed in DVD-R and DVD+R formats.

o New Partial CAV technology that enables writing at speeds up to 16x for CD so you can burn a complete CD in less than 5 minutes! o Conventional CLV mode ensures you can write CD-RW at 8x speed, and ...

In the CD-ROM era, we saw nearly constant upgrades in spin speed, even if the speed was not really needed (and sometimes was not too reliable). However, DVD-ROM drives have been stuck a 16x for a very ...

Many users hoped that Mac OS X 10.2.4 would solve a previously reported problem where CD-RW drives included with some of the newly shipping 2002 iBook models (officially referred to by Apple as the ...