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DVD To Drive Optical Market Skywards
News Frost & Sullivan believes that the market will be completely reinvented in that time with magneto-optical growing moderately in sales but losing optical drive share to CD and DVD. Already accounting for 12 million units and a value of $1.65 billion...
[June 30, 1997, 16:07]
DVD-ROM For Corporate PCs On Back Burner
News After more than a year of hype for the high-capacity optical storage technology, no desktop system has been deployed with a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk)-ROM drive. And administrators still haven't put DVD-ROM drives in storage towers, where...
[May 30, 1997, 9:34]
Hitachi Sees DVD-ROM Sales Rocketing In Q3
News "We expect most high-end machines will offer DVD-ROM instead of CD-ROM drives in the third quarter and we're talking to the big players," said a spokesman for the firm today. IDC's most recent market research for CD-ROM drive sales places Hitachi...
[May 29, 1997, 15:57]
HP Scraps 3GB DVD+RW Drive
News The company said that demand for its high capacity drives would be driven by the rise in the installed base of DVD-ROM readers and DVD video players. Hewlett-Packard has announced that it has scrapped plans to roll out its 3GB DVD+RW drive, which...
[November 5, 1999, 16:25]
One Year Ago: Hitachi Sees DVD-ROM Sales Rocketing
News Japanese giant Hitachi said today it expects widespread uptake of DVD-ROM drives in the next few months. We expect most high-end machines will offer DVD-ROM instead of CD-ROM drives in the third quarter and we're talking to the big players," said a...
[May 29, 1998, 6:00]
CeBIT 2000: Samsung Rolls Out CD-RW/DVD Drive
News Combo is a quad-speed CD-R and CD-RW drive, 24-speed CD-ROM player and quad-speed DVD player. 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...
[February 25, 2000, 10:01]
Hitachi Spins Out CD-ROM, DVD Drives
News Hitachi will market the product as the 12X Partial CAV Mode CD-ROM drive, reflecting the optimum speed for most operations. Hitachi will continue to produce eight-speed CD-ROM drives until demand dries in mid-1997; mass produce 12-speed CD-ROM...
[September 20, 1996, 15:56]
Creative Ships £279 DVD-ROM Kit
News The Singaporean firm's PC DVD Encore DXr2 is a DVD-ROM drive with bundled MPEG-2 card. The drive operates at a maximum 2x mode of 2,700Kbps and as a CD-ROM drive at up to 20-speed. Creative said DVD momentum is building fast.
[September 3, 1997, 16:47]
Nuggets: DVD Combo Drive From Memorex
News Buying a separate CD writer and DVD--ROM drive can get a little pricy. The TriMaxx200 is an E--IDE (ATAPI) internal drive combining a CD--RW, CD--ROM and DVD--ROM drive. The DVD--ROM drive reads at 4x.
[November 11, 1999, 13:24]
Nuggets: DVD Drives Goin' Cheap...
News The SD-606 is a 6x internal DVD-ROM drive, with transfer rates of up to 8,100KB/sec and 110ms access time, selling for around £50. Samsung has announced a trio of budget DVD/CD-ROM drives.and about time.
[August 2, 1999, 13:54]
Nuggets: Fast DVD From Pioneer
News Pioneer is upping the stakes in the DVD-ROM drive market, with the promise of its 10x DVD-A04SZ drive -- the fastest DVD drive yet. Data transfer rates clock in at 10x (13.5 MB/s) for DVD-ROM and 40x (6 MB/s) for CD-ROM.
[July 28, 1999, 11:47]
Phantom Burner
Downloads Phantom Burner is a virtual CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-R drive. It not only allows you to mount disc image files as virtual CD or DVD discs, but also let you create disc image files by burning to the virtual CD-R drive, from using any disc burning software.
[April 30, 2008, 8:16]
Nuggets: Panasonic DVD-RAM Means Business
News So no surprise that its latest DVD-ROM drive is one of the first retail drives to be able to read DVD-RAM. As well as all common CD formats, it's compatible with DVD-RAM/ROM, DVD-R, DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10.
[August 6, 1999, 11:42]
CD-ROM Makers Still Chasing Speed
News TEAC is not the first maker to release a 32-speed drive but many observers have long suggested that the rush to such faster and faster claims is merely the prelude to the eclipse of CD-ROM by DVD-ROM.
[January 21, 1998, 15:45]
Five Years Ago: First DVD Drives Mean Business
News CD-ROM is going to continue for another 12-24 months and after that DVD will make very fast inroads into the CD-ROM drive market. Hitachi said today that it still plans to release DVD drives to PC OEMs by year-end, saying that the roadblocks faced...
[September 2, 2001, 8:00]
HP Rounds Out Notebook Lineup
News Meanwhile, the Presario 910US pairs an Athlon XP 1500+ with a 14-inch display, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive. The new Presario 920US includes an Athlon XP 2000+ and a 15-inch display along with 512MB of RAM...
[October 17, 2002, 16:54]
Nuggets: Optical Organisation From Philips
News Also launching at Cebit is Philips' PCDV832 DVD-ROM drive. The drive, which slots into any 5.25-inch drive bay, is compatible with all DVD-ROM, DVD-R, CD-ROM/R/RW media. The snappily titled PCRW804K is an internal IDE/ATAPI drive, a speedy addition...
[January 31, 2000, 12:14]
Toshiba Debuts Duo-based Tablet PC
News The 12.1-inch M400 weighs 4.5 pounds and features a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive as a standard option. The CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on the M400 fits into a removable bay that can also accommodate a second hard drive.
[February 8, 2006, 8:50]
US Report: Gateway Will Chop DVD's Cost
News A two-speed DVD-ROM drive will be available as a $250 (£152) option. The Solo 5150SE will feature a 233MHz Pentium II, a 14.1-inch display, 32MB of RAM, a 2GB hard drive and a 20-speed CD-ROM drive for $2,299.
[August 14, 1998, 9:19]
Apple Adds New Chapter To IBook
News For example, Best Buy in the US is offering for $1,399, after rebate, a Compaq Presario 725US notebook with 14-inch screen, AMD's 1600+ Mobile Athlon, 256MB of memory, a 20GB hard drive and combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive.
[May 21, 2002, 10:02]
