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DVD-R Backers Push 'Real DVD' to Counter DVD+RW
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
January 29th 2003
The DVD wars between consumer electronics and PC manufacturers hots up.
CDR Info notes an interesting tidbit from the CES show in Las Vegas a little while
back. The story says that major consumer electronics manufacturers, such as Samsung,
Toshiba, Hitachi and Panasonic, which all support the DVD-R/RW format, are backing
'multiformat' recorders.
These recorders work with DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM discs. The 97-member Recordable
DVD Council is using the 'Real DVD' tag to push consumer awareness in the US of
multiformat recorders, in a move sure to provoke PC manufacturers, such as HP and
Dell, which have plumped for the competing DVD+RW format. On the software side,
Microsoft has also opted to support DVD+RW (which doesn't mean Redmond won't change
sides, once it sees who's winning the battle).
Sony is having a bet each way by supporting both DVD-R and DVD+RW, in some cases with
combo DVD recorders. On the DVD-R side, some DV cameras already record direct to DVD-R
or DVD-RAM, giving you raw DVD video footage on disc on the fly.
Apple and its SuperDrive partners, Matsushita and Pioneer, are heavily committed to
the DVD-R format. Recently, one survey found that DVD+RW shipments had overtaken DVD-R
for the first time.
Analysis: DVD+RWs lead was only a couple of % points (in one survey), while DVD-R
blank prices are falling more quickly than DVD+RW. Apple has also popularized home DVD
making, with probably more of its models - especially consumer models - having a DVD-R
option than most, if not all, other manufacturers. Consumer-oriented Gateway, for
instance, doesn't offer DVD recording on its Profile as yet. Compaq was supporting
DVD-R, but is now subsumed into HP, which has opted for +RW. Sony is probably smart to
see which way this one falls, as moving over to DVD-R, should the format prove
dominant, will be no difficulty.
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