However, DVD-RAM is not supported by a the majority of Pismo/Lombard PowerBook drives (see this report from last November for background info). They also won't work in most DVD players.

9.4GB DVD-RAM drive FirewireDirect has announced the release and immediate availability of a new FireWire DVD-RAM drive. Selling for $599, it will read all DVD discs and CDs, and will record ...

Vivastar’s first DVD-RAM PC drives shipped to retail last week, the first of what is expected to be a line of rewritable DVD products from the company. The internal RS-121 carries a $499 suggested ...

Marco Truppi, Panasonic’s marketing manager for multimedia products, said sample 4.7GB DVD-RAM drives for PCs are now shipping to OEMs and a retail product is expected to ship by midyear. Pricing has ...

Rewritable DVD-RAM first appeared in 1998, but its initial iterations werent compatible with computer DVD drives. The DVD-RW standard wasnt completed until early in 2001 and wasnt universally ...

On the Comdex show floor, Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. rolled out a 4.7-Gbyte rewritable DVD drive for PCs based on an extension of the DVD Forum's DVD-Recordable specification, claiming the ...

The Panasonic LF-D321U is a DVD-RAM drive for data backup. It can also write movies to inexpensive DVD-R media, which can be played back in a wide range of DVD drives and players.

Formac dropped the price of its DVD-RAM drive from US$599 to $549. It’s an external FireWire-based DVD-RAM drive that can store up to 9.4GB of data on removable cartridges. Encased in a graphite ...

Formac is offering, for a limited time, the chance for Mac owners to buy the Formac dvdram, an external DVD-RAM-based storage system for US$399. This is a direct price and no rebate is necessary ...

Technically, a DVD-RAM drive can read files that are stored on CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW and various DVD formats, but you can’t write to the recordable CDs — you need a CD-R drive for that.

Panasonic's upcoming DVD-RAM/R drive will be demonstrated at this week's trade show. The $1,000 drive is expected to ship to distributors later this quarter.

A DVD-RAM box can read most other non-DVD-RAM formats, even those without the cartridge housing. But there is still some dispute among the manufacturers about DVD-RAM compatibility.<P>But man ...