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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paris – Philips Research has demonstrated a recordable DVD (DVD+R) system in the lab that it says can burn a DVD disk with video or data 16 times faster than the normal playing speeds for video DVDs.

A large group of users are reporting that the CD-RW drives included with some of the newly shipping 2002 iBook models (officially referred to by Apple as the Opaque iBook 16 VRAM, and iBook 32 VRAM) ...

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 ...