Archive of posts tagged DVD-ROM

Sony Announces Twin Laser Optical Pickups for Reading DVD, CD-ROM, and CD-R

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Sensing a strategic market opportunity, Sony Corporation has now announced that it will be introducing two separate optical pickups capable of reading DVD, CD-ROM, and CD-R discs.

DVD: A Problem Ignored

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Now just a darned minute! Wasn’t the new high-density DVD/DVD-ROM specification supposed to be backwards compatible? Wasn’t it implied that DVD drives could play existing CD-Recordable discs?

Unified DVD Format Emerges

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Toshiba Corporation announced that it, as well as Matsushita, Sony, Philips, Time Warner, Pioneer, JVC, Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, have agreed on the details of final DVD format.