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Nuggets: CD-RW Gets Blaster Treatment
News Creative Technology -- provider of some of the coolest kit around -- has stepped into the burgeoning CD-RW market with the launch of its Blaster CD-RW 4224 drive, a name you're sure to remember for life.
[May 18, 1999, 12:11]
CD-RW Drive Squashes In More Data
News Plextor has announced a new CD-RW drive that can squeeze 40 percent more data into standard blank discs. Such "compressed" discs may not be playable on CD drives, however. The Plextor Premium can pack in 980MB of data into a 700MB (80 minute) disc...
[April 15, 2003, 10:51]
Choose CD-R, CD-RW Media As Though Your Data Life Depends On It
White Papers Storage requirements for computer users have exceeded the capacity of the lowly floppy for years; making todays versatile CD-R and CD-RW discs the media of choice. CD storage wont stem the overwhelming flow of documents, data and information...
[February 4, 2007, 23:00]
Nuggets: Iomega Gets Optical With CD-RW
News The proliferation of CD-RW drives has obviously started to eat into Iomega's profits: Q2 results saw the company taking a bigger-than-expected loss. No surprise then that Iomega has gone all optical, announcing its first CD-RW drive -- the snappily...
[July 1, 1999, 14:41]
Nuggets: Backpack CD-RW Drive Does The Job
News So, you're thinking about buying a CD-RW drive now that Scour Exchange has been closed down? This CD-RW drive can link to either a USB or parallel port, from its own parallel interface. It's possible to connect another peripheral off the Backpack...
[November 27, 2000, 11:19]
Apple Eyes CD-RW Drives For Macs
News At the time the company standardized DVD drives across much of the Mac line, CD-RW had yet to take off. That could force Apple into a compromise: combo DVD-RW/CD-RW drives on high-end Macs, combo DVD/CD-RW drives on mid-range systems, and the iMac...
[December 8, 2000, 8:50]
Nuggets: Sony All-in-one CD-RW For Everyone
News Sony has released an all-in-one CD-RW kit suitable for both professional and novice users. Writing speeds are 4x to CD-R and CD-RW and it reads at a standard 24x. The two software packages included are WinOnCD, for CD-RW whizz kids, and Just!
[May 6, 1999, 14:43]
Sony To Debut Portable DVD/CD-RW Player
News When connected to a Windows or Macintosh computer, the device can serve as a CD-RW drive for recording digital content or backing up computer data. The player supports the CD-RW, DVD-ROM, CD and MP3 formats and comes with a Memory Stick expansion...
[October 22, 2002, 8:45]
Sony Adds DVD/CD-RW Drives To Notebooks
News Toshiba recently made a DVD/CD-RW drive available as an option on several of its notebooks, and Compaq has a similar drive on its Presario 1800 series. On Wednesday, Sony Electronics announced four new Vaio notebooks that come with a combination...
[February 8, 2001, 8:52]
CeBIT 2000: Samsung Rolls Out CD-RW/DVD Drive
News At CeBIT Thursday Samsung presented a new multifunctional drive, the Combo SM-304, with the ability to read CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and act as a CD-R and CD-RW drive. Combo is a quad-speed CD-R and CD-RW drive, 24-speed CD-ROM player and quad-speed DVD...
[February 25, 2000, 10:01]
HP Quits CD-RW For DVD
News The computer giant will release no more new models of CD-RW drives and will stop shipping add-on CD-RW drives in the early part of 2002, Dean Sanderson, HP's lead product manager for DVD+RW drives, said Wednesday.
[October 11, 2001, 11:50]
CD-R & CD-RW: Questions & Answers
White Papers Everything you ever wanted to know about Compact Disc-Recordable and CD-ReWritable storage items, but were afraid to ask, will be answered here in this updated & revised version of a 1997 paper on optical storage and CD technology.
[May 12, 2004, 0:00]
Verbatim CD-R/RW White Paper
White Papers Information is becoming so valuable that one can no longer simply read it and discard it. In fact, Jack Welch, chairman of General Electric, noted that an individual's ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is a person's...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Five Years Ago: Ricoh Writes History With World's First CD-RW Drive
News Office equipment giant Ricoh said it will exhibit the world's first CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) drive at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany this week. The Japanese firm's six-speed read, two-speed write Ricoh MP 6200S CD-RW drive supports packet...
[March 2, 2002, 6:01]
Active ISO Burner
Downloads Active ISO Burner will allow you to burn an ISO image file to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+R DL(Dual Layer), DVD-RW and DVD+RW (including double layer, DL). Version 1.1.4 adds dual layer DVD support in Windows Vista, High-Definition HD DVD-R, DVD...
[January 5, 2008, 6:46]
Nuggets: Iomega USBs Its CD Writer
News Determined to ensure its portable storage line doesn't lose out to the boom in CD-RW devices, the much maligned ex-darling of all things storage, Iomega, has launched a USB version of it own drive, launched last summer.
[January 25, 2000, 13:40]
Recordable-CD Prices To Increase
News Citing factors such as supply shortages and rising costs from overseas disc manufacturers, Memorex plans to increase CD-R and CD-RW media prices by between 10 and 15 percent in January. Due to our prime disc manufacturers' focus towards DVD discs...
[October 21, 2003, 16:10]
Sony Unveils Double-density CD-RWs
News Sony is aiming to double the pleasure of CD-R and CD-RW lovers. On Tuesday, the consumer electronics giant unveiled the first Double Density CD-R (CD-Recordable) and CD-RW (CD-Rewritable) drives and discs.
[March 14, 2001, 8:00]
Sun CD/DVD Burner
Downloads Sun CD/DVD Burner supports almost all kinds of driver types including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, and USB). Sun CD/DVD Burner can back up data on CDs and DVDs, store large media files, and compile music...
[April 24, 2008, 11:01]
Nuggets: Optical Organisation From Philips
News The snappily titled PCRW804K is an internal IDE/ATAPI drive, a speedy addition to its CD-RW drive range -- its fastest yet. Like most other CD-RW drives, it has a 2MB buffer to smooth out data transfer and writing.
[January 31, 2000, 12:14]
