Lord_of_the_Dense
03-26-2004, 10:13 AM
The days of worrying about whether you need DVD+R or DVD-R discs may soon be over. Eighteen months after Sony announced the first dual DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW drive that handles both formats, virtually every other optical-storage manufacturer is jumping onto the combo +/- (DVD±R/RW) bandwagon.
Even Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard, loyal advocates of the DVD-R/RW and +R/RW standards respectively, have recently announced combo +/- drives for the retail market. Toshiba's Storage Device Division makes drives for its own notebooks, other PC vendors, and for retail under its own brand name and others.
"Our customers started to ask us to support both," says Maciek Brzeski, vice president of marketing.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1211&e=10&u=/pcworld/20040325/tc_pcworld/115391&sid=95612664).
Even Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard, loyal advocates of the DVD-R/RW and +R/RW standards respectively, have recently announced combo +/- drives for the retail market. Toshiba's Storage Device Division makes drives for its own notebooks, other PC vendors, and for retail under its own brand name and others.
"Our customers started to ask us to support both," says Maciek Brzeski, vice president of marketing.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1211&e=10&u=/pcworld/20040325/tc_pcworld/115391&sid=95612664).