Plextor PX-740A Review
The PX-740A is the latest DVD/CD recorder from Plextor to target budget-conscious buyers still seeking state-of-the-art performance.
Archive of posts tagged CD-ROM
Pioneer DVR-A08XL Review
Pioneer Electronics’ DVR-A08 is a superior unit packing practical features with winning double layer writing performance to make it an excellent choice for use in any video authoring or production environment.
Primera Signature Z1 Review
Best known for its commercial inkjets and duplicators, Primera Technology now offers disc labeling for the rest of us. Its new Signature Z1 is a nifty, low-cost alternative to professional CD/DVD printers that still produces attractive and durable results. Primera enlisted Cal-Comp Electronics to manufacture the Z1. The result of their collaboration is a 200dpi …
Optical Disc Corporation Unveils CDR-ROM
Optical Disc Corporation announced its new CDR-ROM technology, which combines recordable CD-R and prerecorded CD-ROM on the same disc.
Get the Picture: Digital Cameras and CD-R Need Each Other
Conventional photographs, properly kept, can survive for a hundred years, but where’s the digital photo storage equivalent? Storing photos on expensive flash memory cards won’t preserve them forever, nor will dumping them onto volatile hard drives, corruptible magnetic tape, or floppy disks. Surely universally readable, durable, reliable, portable, and embarrassingly inexpensive CD-R media makes a …
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The Demise of Low-Run CD Replication
CD duplication is quickly replacing replication for making not only a few, but now larger and larger runs of discs. In fact, CD duplication is becoming so reliable and attractive that low-run replication is now on the way to being doomed.
MultiRead – The DVD Sequel
The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) has undertaken a renewed effort to surpass its previous accomplishments in the hope of bringing some clarity to the DVD storage marketplace. I’m of course referring to the existing MultiRead specification for CD and OSTA’s desire to create a new MultiRead 2 specification designed to promote and facilitate compatibility …
CD-R/RW On the Go
Compact, lightweight portable CD-ROM drives that operate on the notebook’s or their own battery power and connect using a standard PCMCIA interface have been available for years. So why haven’t we had portable CD-R/RW drives?
CD-R’s Digital Destiny
Some aspire to greatness while others have greatness thrust upon them. Certainly, greatness appears to have been thrust upon CD-R, which started life humbly enough as an expensive prototyping system. Beginning almost in obscurity, it now is poised to be the dominant optical storage technology for the next five years. Where else can so much …
Sony CD Duplicators Duplicate Up to Six CDs Simultaneously
Sony Electronics announced its new SDS-C400/66 ($9,680) and SDS-C400/36 ($7,970) compact disc duplicators.
Is Multi CD-R Too Late for the Party?
NEC and TEAC have fused Phase-Change Dual (PD) and CD-Recordable into a single hybrid device called Multi CD-R or CD-R Plus. A veritable Swiss Army Knife of optical storage, this new drive can read and rewrite PD media, read CD-ROMs at 20X CAV, and record CDs at double speed.