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.

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 ...

Other World Computing on Wednesday announced the release of its Mercury Pro DVR-109 — an external optical drive capable of burning dual-layer DVD -/+ R/RW media at up to 16x speed. The new drive ...

MCE Technologies has a new 16x version of their Lucid Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive. The Lucid-16 16x10x24x Portable FireWire CD-RW Drive is compatible with all FireWire equipped Macs, as well as ...

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 ...