While the cost of digital photography media is coming down, if you're a professional photographer - or a serious amateur - then shelling out for several Microdrives or other forms of high capacity memory card can ...

Pioneer has updated its DVR-A05 DVD writer and given it the catchy model name of DVR-A06. You can't say that those marketing blokes miss a trick, can you? You may also come across the DVR-106 model, ...

If you want to add a CD-RW drive to your PC, but don't want the hassle of digging around inside it, this stylish, external, USB 2 device from Iomega could be a great alternative. Based around ...

One can't help thinking that if the VHS and Betamax video manufacturers had got together in the 1970s and sorted out their differences, it might have been possible to have one machine that played both formats. ...

Verbatim is very proud of the fact that it is currently the only firm in the world that designs, develops and manufactures high-performance, high-quality, CD-Recordable, CD-ReWritable, DVD-Recordable and DVD-ReWritable media products. And breathe... Thus it comes ...

So you're not too sure which DVD recording format suits your need? You can't make up your mind as to which is best? Don't worry; Sony's DRU-500AX has come to your rescue. This DVD-Dual drive supports ...

As one of the founding members of the DVD+RW Alliance it's no surprise to find that Ricoh's second-generation drive, the MP5125A, supports DVD+R/+RW. This is different to its predecessor, the MP-5120A, which was DVD+RW only. The ...

Plextor has been associated with optical drives for a long time, with a name for producing well built, full featured CD-R/RW drives with good performance. The PX-504A is the company's first DVD recorder and it certainly ...

Pioneer's latest DVD writer, the DVR-A05, is a vast improvement on its predecessor, the DVR-A04, with better overall performance and much quicker writing speeds for both DVD and CD formats. Using DVD-R/-RW technology, the DVR-A05 is ...

As one of the members of the DVD Forum, Panasonic is one of the companies trying to make DVD-RAM and its ilk more popular. This format group has advantages and disadvantages. Advantages first; a DVD-RAM disc ...

The latest edition to AOpen's ever-growing range of optical drives is the fast performing DVRW2412 Pro drive, a DVD+R /+RW burner. The DVRW2412 writes DVDs at 2.4-speed for both +R and +RW media and has a ...

Here's an odd thing. Philips has released an external USB 2.0 combo drive called the Jackrabbit. Its official model code is the J32RWDV but both the box and the drive itself carry the word 'Jackrabbit' and ...

The PocketDrive CD-RW is, as the name suggests, a small, external CD-RW drive. The drive module itself is a notebook-style unit rather than a full-sized ATAPI model, and it is just about pocketable as long as ...

DVD writing technology is becoming faster and cheaper and offers far more features than CD writing. The most obvious advantage is the huge 4.7GB of capacity offered by a single DVD for £4. Then you have ...

Philips is traditionally an early-adopter of new technologies, particularly those involving the CD and DVD standards which it has helped to specify from the start. This DVD+RW drive is compatible with the DVD+R standard, as well ...

With the arrival of the USB 2.0 specification and its 480Mb/sec transfer rate (40 times faster than USB 1.0), high-speed peripherals such as hard drives, CD-RW drives and so on are viable alternatives to adding another ...

Producing your own DVD movies always required a high performance system with plenty of fast storage and a deep pocket. Pioneer's early DVD writers would set you back a couple of grand on top of the ...

With the burgeoning market for DVD writers, it was about time we saw the first offering from Toshiba. The SD-R5002 supports both secure, write-once DVD-R General technology and rewriteable DVD-RW formats. Toshiba claims that 98 percent ...

Belgium is rather better known for its chocolate than for its IT industry, which is a little unfair on optical drive company Plextor. Over the years Plextor has produced IDE and SCSI CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-ROM ...

This article started life as a review of Plextor's PlexWriter 40/12/40U external CD-R/RW drive, but no sooner had we finished playing with that than Plextor announced an even faster model, the PlexWriter 48/24/48U. The differences between ...