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TDK LTO Ultrium 5 Data Cartridges Pass Certification Testing

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TDK Corporation announced that it completed development of its LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges, the fifth-generation Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format, and the cartridges recently passed certification testing by the LTO compliance verification entity (CVE). TDK has now started mass production of its LTO Ultrium 5 data cartridges. According to the statement, TDK has long …

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HP LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling Review

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What’s the best way to label a disc — marker? sticker? printer? The inventive folks at Hewlett-Packard think they have the answer with LightScribe, promising slick labels with fewer hassles. But does HP’s LightScribe live up to the hype?

Computer CD Music Recorders

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CD recorders are selling like hotcakes, but despite this overwhelming success, several companies feel they can reach an untapped market by promoting recorders as consumer audio products rather than as removable storage devices, which incidentally happen to have audio capabilities.

Smart and Friendly’s 8X CD Rocket Review

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With earth-shattering performance light years beyond anything else currently available, the Smart and Friendly 8X CD Rocket blasts into orbit propelled by the latest and greatest in CD recording technology, Sanyo Electric’s new CRD-R800S CD recorder.

CD-R, Fit to Print: Printing Devices for CD-Recordable

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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.

Rimage’s Perfect Image CD Printer

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There are, of course, many different ways to label a disc – everything from using a felt-tip pen and stick-on label to fancier inkjet, dry offset, and silkscreen printing systems. Rimage Corporation of Minneapolis, Minnesota has pioneered a solution that adapts thermal transfer technology for CD-R labeling. A long-established method for other printing applications, Rimage …

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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?

Hewlett-Packard SureStore CD-Writer 4020i: CD-R for the Mainstream Buyer?

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While by no means the last word in CD-Recordable, Hewlett-Packard’s CD-Writer 4020i is none the less a significant step forward in the evolution of CD recorders from specialized tools to everyday peripherals.

Kodak’s PCD Writer 600 and Disc Transporter: Replication in Record Time

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Much like the military remnants of the cold war, Kodak’s expensive PCD Writer 600 is trying to find an alternate role in a new world order — a recorder culture dominated by entry-level units. But comparing the PCD Writer 600 to any other CD recorder is like comparing the old Army Jeep to a Hummer, …

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