Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at ...

Hoping to ease consumer concerns over a confusing DVD standards battle, Sony said Monday it will support the two leading formats in a new line of drives. DVD recording is gradually catching on with ...

Sony Electronics will take the wraps off a new suite of DVD recordable discs, including DVD-RW and DVD-R, as well as DVD+RW and DVD+R media today. “We think the discs will be of interest to Mac users ...

A mistranslation or misinterpretation of a statement by Sony's vice president for consumer electronics, Katsumi Ihara, led many U.S. media outlets to believe that Sony was dropping all support for DVD ...

Blu-ray discs have been part of the digital media landscape for almost 20 years, but fewer and fewer people have optical drives to use them. As such, Sony doesn't see the need to keep pumping out ...

Amateur moviemakers are suddenly faced with too much of a good thing. A year ago, no computer manufacturer offered drives for recording home DVDs. Now there are plenty of DVD-recording PCs to choose ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sony’s new AccuCORE technology for DVDs offers a number of benefits for storing and paying back ...

All PCs have the same basic capabilities, but providing customers with a state-of-the-art DVD recorder lets them burn discs more quickly and use the latest media. It is also a good selling point, one ...

The DVD+RW Alliance, which includes major PC and consumer electronics makers, last week demonstrated a technique that promises to nearly double storage capacity on DVD+R discs. At the Ceatec trade ...

Toshiba on Tuesday will join competitor Sony in shipping high-end notebooks with drives capable of burning DVDs. The move comes as PC makers look to revive sluggish sales and to repeat the ...