HP Product Manager Dean Sanderson would not reveal the internal sales expectations for the DVD+RW drive. However, Sanderson said, "since late 1995, CD-RW has been very successful for us, and we ...

The HP drive will rewrite onto DVD discs at a speed of 2.4x--which Sanderson said was the equivalent of a CD-ROM drive reading at 20x--and can read DVDs at 8x.

After drawing fire from angry customers, Hewlett-Packard says it will keep its promise after all to offer owners of its first-generation DVD+RW drives a DVD+R upgrade--if they pay $99.

Customers who call HP customer service from May 1 to June 30 and ask for the trade-in will be sent a new drive and software that will read and write to both DVD+RW and DVD+R discs. The old drives ...

For performing backups, the drive comes with HP’s first rate Simple Backup software that lets you regularly burn up to 4.7GB of data onto DVD discs and later restore it. The drive comes with a DLA ...

In 2004, HP pledged its allegiance to Blu-ray technology, but in 2005, the company announced that it would support HD DVD, and offered HD DVD drives in some of its desktops and laptops.

Summary. The HP dvd400i has a lot going for it in the way of reliability and software features but fails in the performance category. DVD and CD write times are sub par and while the drive can ...

As far as specs are concerned, the HP All-in-One desktop PC is running on 32GB of RAM and has 1TB of storage on its SSD. It’s got an Intel Celeron J4025 processor. You can expect a fast boot-up time, ...

HP made a modular PC with snap-on DVD drive. And other accessories. And other accessories. by Jacob Kastrenakes. Sep 1, 2016, 4:01 AM UTC. Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He ...

The HP DVD Writer dvd530i was originally slated to ship in June, but at that time the unit was only compatible with about 40 percent of the DVD players on the market. “Compatibility is the most ...

In an increasingly disc-less world, the HP dvd550s external DVD burner is a simple and affordable external optical drive that fills the void for those who still need to read and write DVDs or CDs.

Laptops with a DVD drive aren't common, but they do exist, and some perform well, for a decent price. Consumer Reports picks models from Dell, HP, and Lenovo.