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.

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 ...

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 ...

Win2K, 1.4 Athlon, 512. DMA is enabled, using Nero with Fuji CD-R's. This happens with audio and text. The write speed starts at 24X, after about 30 seconds I get the message that the write speed has ...