excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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... 96% 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. 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% 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... 90% CDR Software & Hardware Shopping Guide Summary: duplication time. The Trans/Corder was developed because of operator dissatisfaction with the time-consuming process of duplicating CD-ROM discs. CD-R duplication. and NT support. New CD-R writer software. 90% CD-ROM and 'nets converging Summary: CD-ROM and 'nets converging. Recent examples of convergence are hybrid CD-ROM/Internet products and the integration of CD technology with document management and publishing. "With IW we can really get the message out that CD technology and systems are the synergistic partners with inter- and intranet document-centric information management." CD technology is at the heart of many converging and... 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% Source code fetches $7.5 million Adaptec ripen Summary: Source code fetches $7.5 million. The Macintosh technology was originally developed in Germany and distributed here through an agreement with Astarte. In addition to the source code, Adaptec will gain Toast's team of developers. And what about Adaptec's DVD plans? Ulmer says Adaptec has already been looking toward DVD for its Windows products, but adds that the Toast relationship will facilitate... 89% Ricoh shows CD-RW hardware Summary: Ricoh shows CD-RW hardware. Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. Using both standard CD-R and the new CD-RW media, the MP6200S ($599) drive is the first on the market to have the rewritable capability and a SCSI-2 interface. Used as a CD-R drive, the... 89% CD-R's bright future Summary: Very soon ISO will release ISO 13346, the standard for incremental writing ("packet writing") of CD-R discs. The OSTA standard.osta. New products, possibilities. When fully implemented, imaging, COLD and new CD-R technologies could revolutionize this process. 89% 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. 89% CD's promise for document management SIGCAT se... Summary: CD's promise for document management. The convergence of document management software with CD technology will be the emphasis of this year's Special Interest Group for CD Technology and Applications (SIGCAT) document management track. Session dates, times and descriptions follow: MONDAY, MAY 19, 1 P.M.--. Major document storage and retrieval system case history. The major components of a... 89% Rewritable CD taking shape Summary: Manufacturers agree on standard platform A new compact disc platform, CD-Rewritable, (CD-RW) has been agreed upon by Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi, Philips, Ricoh and Sony. The companies will work together promoting compatibility of CD-RW media and drives. The format specifications, referred to as "Orange Book, Part III," have been released to manufacturers by Sony and Philips. The collaborating... 87% LAN developer acquires CD-ROM networking Summary: CD-ROM networking. In a deal worth approximately $17 million, LAN developer Microtest (Phoenix) has acquired Logicraft Information (Nashua, NH). Logicraft is a developer and manufacturer of enterprise CD-ROM networking systems. Logicraft's CD-ROM networking and storage retrieval management solutions provide access to multiple CD-ROM databases over a range of networks. As part of the t... 87% CDR Making CD-Recordable as useful as magnetic Summary: When disc writing is complete the disc can be finalized in the 13490 file system, or (software permitting) it can be converted to comply with the ISO 9660 file system. If a file or several files are smaller than a fixed-length packet we can always pad the packet before writing it. Standard players can not read Level 3 ISO 9660 discs. Writing the packets can be a very slow process. If the files... 86% 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. 85% Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imag... Summary: Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imaging at Comdex. Yamaha announced at Comdex (Las Vegas) that it will bring the world's fastest read/write CD-R to market. The Yamaha CDR400 writes at 4X and reads at 6X. Among its CD-RW drives, Ricoh's popular 2X/4X RO-1420C will feature a 2 MB buffer. Enhanced PD drive models with CD-ROM spin speeds of 6X and 8X are scheduled to ship in 1997. 77% Enterprise storage management: The past and the present Summary: By Michael Johnson, Business Development Manager. New product offerings in 1997 will bring on-line mountable tape file systems that will provide quick access to previously backed-up data and file systems while offering a variety of standard and unique file indexing formats. form factor becomes a less-attractive solution in a long-term archival storage strategy. Also included is a migration tool... 75% Massive mass storage is coming to a desktop ne... Summary: Imaging World, May 5th, 1997. disc and 1,000 times the capacity of most CD-ROMs. We're adapting this tool to etch information and images into discs. Future versions of Norsam HD-ROM, he says, are expected to hold up to 4 terabytes per disc. With planned enhancements, Norsam HD-ROM may permit up to 12 terabytes of storage per 4.75-in. disc.
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