excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% DVD arrives The advent of DVD-Video signals th... Summary: The advent of DVD-Video signals that DVD-ROM discs are just around the corner. DVD-Video drives are out, and DVD-ROM drives appear to be close to release. Encyclopedia Electronica will be bundled with DVD-ROM drives when the drives begin shipping. A number of CD-ROM replicators have established DVD production lines (See box "DVD Replicators." * DVD-R will have a smaller capacity than DVD-ROM. 96% CD-ROM and DVD comparison Summary: Imaging World, April 21st, 1997 CD-ROM and DVD comparison Specifications CD-ROM DVD Disc diameter 120mm 120mm Disc thickness 1.2mm 1.2mm Disc structure single substrate two bonded .6mm substrates Laser wavelength 780 nms--infrared 650 nms and 635 nms (red) Numerical aperture .45 .60 Track pitch 1.6 microns .74 micron Shortest pit length .83 micron .4 micron Reference speed 1.2 msec constant linear... 95% What makes DVD compelling for users? Summary: What makes DVD compelling for users? Out of 1,199 respondents, 73% said that they would be compelled to buy a DVD-ROM drive if software other than movies or games was available on DVD-ROM discs. When faced with a list of 25 companies, the largest percentage of users (22%) said they would choose Sony (Park Ridge, NJ) if they were to buy a DVD-ROM drive today. The first in the DVD family of drives... 94% The latest news in ... DVD technology Summary: The latest news in ... DVD technology. DVD has first appeared--as expected--in the entertainment industry. As manufacturers bring out DVD recorders to play full-length feature films, expect to see production studios such as WOWdvd of WOW Digital Color (New York) begin to offer services. WOWdvd will be fully operational by May, but its services will not be exclusively devoted to entertainment... 93% New optical storage solution Summary: (Wednesday, January 15, 1997, 2:21 pm) Elektroson's (Campbell, CA, http://www.elektroson.com) mastering technology meets the management software of Software Architects (Bothell, WA, http://www.com) in the product development of TopGear, the first digital video disc (DVD) recordable premastering software application. The DVD-Rom will enable the mastering and premastering of universal disc format... 92% Double-speed DVD Summary: Double-speed DVD. Hitachi's Storage Products Group (Brisbane, CA, 800-448-2244) has announced a double-speed DVD-ROM drive. "Systems designers and users who want maximum flexibility in optical storage can move to DVD drives immediately," said Werner Glinka, director of marketing for Hitachi's Storage Group. "They have a system compatible with the standards of today and tomorrow." The drive has... 91% New disc technology could hold up to 12 terabytes Summary: (Posted: Friday, April 25, 1997, 8:49 AM) 91% Where we answer all your CD-R questions Summary: What is CD-Recordable? Part II refers to CD-Recordable. For a CD-ROM player or CD recorder, a 1X speed translates to 153,600 bytes per second. Therefore, a "1X" recorder writes 150 KB per second to the CD-R media. Likewise, a "2X" recorder records at 300 KB per second, a "4X" records at 600 KB per second and a "6X" records at 900 KB per second. 91% CD-ROM Storage What next By Judith Lamont... Summary: CD-ROM meets the Web. Securing Web-based data. Taking a lead role in exploring how CD-ROM servers can provide secure Web sites for the federal government is SMS Data Products (McLean, VA). Some agencies will be selected for a study and will become test sites for CD-ROM Web server technology. 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High-capacity storage solution. Application for. application-specific jukeboxes. From a high capacity system with 88 GBs of storage to a high-access system with a 12:1 disc-to-drive ratio, the Satellite has 12x read drives, 6x/4x read/write drives and can hold up to 3 read/write drives for automated CD production. Scanners with ISIS drivers are supported. 90% Electronic delivery trend Hybrid, connected Summary: In its simplest form, the strategy might just mean exporting information developed in a CD-ROM into the hypertext markup language (HTML) code read by Web browsers. The only viewer that is needed for the CD-ROM is a standard Web browser. Opportunities for hybrid CDs. Textbooks may include a CD-ROM that allows Web access. If the information that was put on the CD-ROM portion of the CD/Web duo needs... 90% CD-R study disproves negative market perceptio Summary: CD-R study disproves. By Judith Lamont and Dhaval Joshi A new study provides encouraging results regarding CD-R media compatibility. The purpose of the test by Doculabs (Chicago) and the Special Interest Group on CD Applications and Technology Foundation (SIGCAT, Reston, VA) was to prove or disprove a market perception of incompatibility among CD readers, writers and media. Early users of CD-R... 90% Packet writing Making desktop recording a re... Summary: Packet writing defined.) FloppyCD records under Windows 95, Windows 3.1x and DOS. In that strategy, the cache size is equal to the packet size, and a packet is written when the user-defined cache is full. Then, when the disc is put into a Windows 95 system that does not have a UDF reader, the system advises the user that the disc is in UDF, and the user has the option of installing the UDF reader... 90% Why attend SIGCAT Summary: CD technology has come to the rescue through innovative companies that have created "connected" CD products in conjunction with the growth of the Web. An even newer development is emerging in which the connected CD is taken one step further and becomes a Web site on a disc. Document management systems based on CD-R technology are extremely scalable. All we need are the discs. That's where CD-R... 90% CD-R media a global solution; read, write and ... Summary: If the system doesn't work, is it the hard drive, the recording software or the media? The same set of test files and the same procedures were used in recording each disc. All the files recorded successfully, and the test set of files also was readable. Not only did all the recorders work on all the media, but surprisingly, the discs were readable in all the CD-ROM drives used. Even for those... 89% Hot Products 4-7-97 Summary: Faster microfilm scanning. Imaging system on Web.pixel. The software features scanner controls and a batch function that allows multiwindow scanning of several images. Remittance processing scanner. 89% Ricoh to market CD-RW hardware Summary: (Posted: Tuesday, April 01, 1997, 12:11 AM) Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose, http://www.ricoh.com) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. 89% Air Force hopes to grow document management ten Summary: Paper documents were then routed to the service's administrative office that distributed them. How SCATS works. Discs from the federal government are more numerous and more sophisticated than ever before and a good bargain as well.sigcat.org General Services Administration, copies of the GSA study are available from SIGCAT.
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