News.com heeft een artikeltje geschreven over de huidige oorlog in DVD land, waar de DVD-RW standaard van Boonstra en Sony het opneemt tegen de DVD-RAM standaard van Hitachi, Panasonic en Toshiba. De huidige strijd heeft veel weg van de VHS vs Beta battle uit de jaren tachtig:
The players are strikingly similar. Beta backers Sony and Philips support one standard, DVD+RW, and VHS victors Hitachi, Panasonic, and Toshiba support the other, DVD-RAM."Do you want to bet on the guys who did VHS or the guys who did Beta?" asked Jim Porter, president of Disk Trend. "We see the same foolishness being repeated over and over again here and the inability to sit down in a smoke-filled room and agree what a single standard should be."
DVD+RW writes disks that most DVD drives and players can read. DVD-RAM, on the other hand, stores optical disks in caddies that won't work in older DVD devices. DVD rewritable's main advantage over the more popular CD rewritable is capacity, 4.7GB versus 640MB.
