An industry consortium devoted to promoting rewritable and write-once DVD standards. Founded in 1997 by HP, Philips, Sony and others, it developed the DVD+RW specification as an evolution of the ...

DVD players typically support "plus" and "minus" formats (read-only DVD+R and DVD-R and rewritable DVD+RW and DVD-RW); however, older players may play only the minus group (DVD-R, DVD-RW).

DVD-RW Drives are DVD Drive that has the ability to record on a ReWritable DVD. Depending on the drive they can also write DVD-R media as well. This term was viewed 13,723 times.