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Five Years Ago: DVD-ROM Is Here
News The GD-1000 DVD-ROM drive has a 4.7Gb capacity using single-sided disks, and up to 17Gb using dual-layer, double-sided disks. The first disks will have a capacity of 2.6Gb, and the current DVD-ROM drives should be able to read disks written by DVD...
[January 22, 2002, 6:01]
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]
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]
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]
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. Separately, the firm said that it will end production of eight-speed CD...
[May 29, 1997, 15:57]
MSDN Events DVD-ROM - Guided Tour-Level 100
White Papers This webcast takes users through a guided tour of the gigabytes of content and other resources that have been compiled together for this DVD-ROM.
[January 7, 2005, 23:00]
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]
Milia 97: Apple Shows Performa With DVD-ROM
News Apple said it expected to ship Macs with DVD-ROM by the end of the year, to be followed by PowerBook notebooks early in 1998. Just as Apple was the first computer vendor to standardise on CD-ROM ten years ago, we now expect to take a leadership...
[February 13, 1997, 14:11]
CD / DVD-ROM Networking : The Next Generation CD / DVD-ROM / Mirror Server
White Papers Fueled by demand and innovation, CD/DVD-ROM Networking is made easier for storage and accessibility than ever before. Allion, one of the pioneers of CD-ROM Networking is blazing the trail with the next generation of CD/DVD Networking Technology.
[May 9, 2004, 0:00]
Bell Tolls For CD-ROM: Report
News By the year 2002, 78% of all software units shipped will be in DVD-ROM format with the remaining 22% on CD-ROMs. Currently, Datamonitor says there are a "negligible" number of software titles on DVD ROM with a predicted rise to 12 percent by the...
[August 28, 1998, 10:21]
Sony And VideoLogic Do DVD
News Sony announced its DDU220E Retail Pack which is an internal ATAPI drive capable of reading a DVD-ROM disc at 5x max speed. Industry analyst Datamonitor, predicts that by the year 2002 of the expected 91m software titles shipped, 71m will be in the...
[September 23, 1998, 15:28]
DVD Technology Explained
News DVD -- or Digital Versatile Disk -- is the storage media of the future, set to leave CD-ROM dead in the water by the year 2001 according to figures from industry analyst Dataquest. But DVD is essentially the same technology as its older sibling the...
[May 14, 1999, 16:11]
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]
Nuggets: DVD Drives Goin' Cheap...
News Samsung has announced a trio of budget DVD/CD-ROM drives.and about time. 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.
[August 2, 1999, 13:54]
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]
Five Years Ago: Hitachi: DVD, CD Will Sell Side By Side Till 2001
News The European DVD-ROM market will be five per cent - or 900,000 units - of the CD-ROM market by the end of the year, according to a report by Hitachi and market analyst IDC. For two to three years there will be a viable market for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM...
[January 25, 2002, 6:01]
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]
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]
Group Doubles DVD+R Capacity
News At the Ceatec trade show in Japan, the Alliance demonstrated DVD+R discs that comply with the dual-layer DVD-ROM standard, already used with standard pre-recorded discs. The dual-layer discs will remain compatible with currrent DVD+R-compatible DVD...
[October 13, 2003, 17:30]
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]
