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 ...

I want to buy some more DVD-R's for my new iMac, but I don't want to necessarily buy them from Apple authorised dealers [looking for better prices]. What do I need to know to make sure that what I buy ...

A reader asks where he can buy blank DVDs that can record (and play) for longer than two hours. The answer is easy. And not easy. The easy part: Any standard blank DVD-R and DVD+R (those are the two ...

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I have my friend's PPC eMac set up to do weekly backups with Retrospect 6 onto single-layer DVD-Rs, using his 2005-era LaCie d2 FireWire external drive. The backups have been running fine for years, ...

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 ...

The OEM price level of blank DVD+R/-R discs has been falling since early this year due to oversupply, but the market is expected to bottom out next quarter and perhaps rebound, as global demand is ...

International brands of optical discs in the Japan market, including TDK, Imation and Verbatim, plan to ask Japanese authorities to ban the import of blank DVD+R/-R discs that pirate their M-Codes, ...

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 ...