excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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... 95% 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... 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% 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... 88% 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... 86% JulyHotProducts Summary: an arcane data entry screen. EasyRead 240's 20-in. Data archiving. reaches new level.. New compact digital camera. 85% SIGCAT a review and a preview The upcoming SI... Summary: Imaging World, May 5th, 1997 SIGCAT: a review and a preview. THE UPCOMING SIGCAT CONFERENCE PROMISES TO CLARIFY VARIOUS. CD TECHNOLOGIES THAT CONTINUE TO CHANGE AT A DIZZYING PACE. The conference will try to make sense of the dizzying recent growth in CD technology. SIGCAT's history. 83% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 83% 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... 83% Electronic archiving of radiology images Summary: Most 5.25-in. optical data transfer rates are between 1 and 2 MB per second, with the newer 2.6 GB drives advertising 2 to 4 MB per second. optical drives which hold 15 GBs today and cost about $600 each. The Philips drive reads data at 2.7 MB per second and writes at 1.3 MB per second. CD is the least expensive optical media ($1,000 per drive and about $15 per 600 MB platter), but the slowest... 82% News Shorts 10-21-96 Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. Walk-up imaging. Initially, customers would only be able to hold their records on CD, but the company envisions having the banks store records for remote customer access.. Storage management for Windows NT. Microsoft is excited about the new offering for the NT platform. 82% News Shorts 3-3-97 Summary: Plasmon VARs check out Double-Checked. TASC allies with Sybase. Document management provider TASC (Reading, MA) has teamed up with Sybase (Emeryville, CA) to join TASC's COLD technology with the Sybase System 11 relational database. As a Sybase application partner, TASC will market and distribute Sybase products in conjunction with TASC-COLD. First Data takes Kodak's COM. 81% 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... 81% 1996 the year in review Summary: This turned out to be a nightmare­on the good days. Wang ascends ... to somewhere. Long-term impact: Not to worry. Long-term impact: CDIA is just too good an idea to flop, and it won't. Long-term impact: The virtual potential here is so great that it's hard to figure out where to start. 81% 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. 80% News Shorts 4-21-97 Summary: SOME NEW JERSEY TAX RECORDS.. A NEW SEMINAR SERIES. ADVANCING INDUSTRY SPECS. RECORD STORAGE WAREHOUSE ARSON VICTIM. IMAGINATION SOFTWARE PARTNERS. 80% Vendors to visit at Imaging Expo '96 Summary: com.com/scanners. Available in 21-in. Microsystems Technology. and 21-in. 80% Hot Products Summary: Next generation in image-processing toolkits. Sales force automation software. No pricing information was available at press time. The base price for a full-speed model is $14,000. CD-Recorders continue price descent. 80% News Shorts 3-17-97 Summary: Ricoh to market 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. Certifiably Artist VARs. Artist Graphics (St. There's an Acrobat in the file cabinet.
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