Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it has started shipments of its new DVD+R/+RW data drive to HP. The shipments are the first part of a large order of 4x/2.4x DVD+R/+RW 16x/10x CD-R/RW data drives to be delivered this year.

HP announced earlier this year its plans to include DVD+R/+RW data drives as the standard format for rewritable DVD drives available in its consumer desktop PC lines. HP has chosen the DVD+R/+RW format as the exclusive DVD writer format option for all its products.