A mid-range product designed for tasks such as small-run disc duplication and rudimentary disc verification, MediaFORM’s CD2CD Pro is a standalone tower that combines one 12X Plextor CD-ROM drive with one to six Yamaha or TEAC CD recorders and can be placed unobtrusively on a desk in an office or production environment.
Eastman Kodak Company announced that its enhanced Disc Transporter is now supported by Creative Digital Research’s HyCD CD-R recording software.
It’s hard to deny how far CD recorders have come in just a few years, but there are still particular features that set superior machines apart from the rest. The most notable of these is Running Optimum Power Control (OPC).
There is little arguing that CD-R disc label printing has come a long way in terms of price and capability in a few years and the future promises more exciting developments.
Eastman Kodak Company announced an adapter kit that allows 5.25” half-height CD recorders to be used with the company’s Disc Transporter.
Speed of technological change seems inevitable. Sometimes speed gets you where you want to go faster, but sometimes speed kills. Speed in product development and rush to market rather than well considered long-term planning has come on the scene to infect well-ordered CD marketing.
Hitachi, Ltd. announced it will start shipping samples of its double-speed (2x) GD-2000 DVD-ROM drive.
Adaptec, Inc. announced that it is purchasing the technology to Markus Fest’s Toast Macintosh CD recording software for $7.5 million.
The ten-disc Grundig GMP 1010 CD jukebox is targeted for low-run CD duplication or production, small workgroup network archiving and small imaging applications.
Toast CD-ROM Pro 3.0 is easily the best general-purpose recording software currently available for the MacOS with enough polish, stability, and power to accomplish easily most professional, business, and hobbyist tasks.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation announced that it is expanding its CD-R and CD-RW disc production facilities in Singapore and building a new CD-R factory in Ireland.