Panasonic teams up with HP and again with Microsoft

PC World | at | by Mike

Panasonic and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to support each other's favored rewritable DVD technologies in some products, they said today at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show here.

In accordance with the agreement, HP will build support for the DVD-RAM format into its desktop PCs, and Panasonic will add support for the DVD+R format to its DVD video recorder, said Masaru Kono, president and COO of Panasonic Consumer Electronics, the U.S. arm of the Osaka-based company also known as Matsushita Electric Industrial.