Erasing DVD-RAM discs Gabriel Dorado discovered he could not select the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" option when trying to Erase a DVD-RAM disc from Apple's Disk Utility via the internal drive in ...

As the CD-RW drive will not read these discs either, this means that DVD-RAM is no longer supported by any currently shipping Power Mac G4 internal drive.

Reader Jeffrey Boyd has some old discs that he’d like to use in a new Mac. He writes: I have a few DVD-RAM discs left over from an older Mac that had a DVD-RAM-compatible burner. The discs are ...

Considering DVD-RAM discs support up to 3x (4140 kB/s), something was clearly wrong. I connected the drive to my Windows 10 virtual machine and saw mostly similar speeds, except when writing an ...

DVD-RAM discs operate pretty much like a PC hard drive though slower. You can format them for PCs or Macs and copy files to them using the standard file copy commands.

Future DVD-RAM drives will write to DVD-R discs as well as CD-R/RW. Toshiba, Panasonic, and others released combination DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives near the end of 1999.

And DVD-RAM discs can be rewritten 100,000 times, while a DVD-R/DVD-RW disc can be rewritten 1,000 times. DVD-RAM can be used for both data storage and video editing.

In response to the incompatibility issues with legacy DVD players often cited by rivals, Panasonic executives pointed out that its decks also record on write-once DVD-R media, which is both less ...

Those discs are fundamentally different from packaged DVDs, requiring a special pickup to read marks in and between the grooves. As a result, a standard DVD player won’t recognize a DVD-RAM disc.

The DVD-RAM disc can be reused up to 100,000 times. *Simplification of the electro-mechanical device. The disc drive requires much less maintenance and is more stable than videotape recorders.