excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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... 97% 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% 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... 94% 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... 93% 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... 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... 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... 85% JVC Information Products Summary: JVC Information Products, an international company with more than 20 subsidiary firms, sells more than $100 million of computer products annually in the United States. The company provides a broad range of CD-Recordable and CD-ROM Library Storage system solutions, MPEG-2 Video Authoring systems, DVD Pre-Mastering systems and Infrared Wireless LAN systems. 85% 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. 84% 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... 83% IDC study says Web dreams coming true A report... Summary: IDC study says Web dreams coming true. Based on the IDC report, the market for electronic document management solutions grew to 208,025 users by the end of 1996. Current Web products' abilities range from full access through a browser to view-only access. The report weighs these products' functionality two ways: Web-enabled--those with full browser functionality; and Web-accessible--those... 83% GigaAIIM reports respectable, not spectacula... Summary: Giga/AIIM reports respectable,. not spectacular, industry growth. Production imaging systems still dominate the market with 78% of the revenue. The report also reveals that few vendors identify themselves as being involved exclusively in electronic imaging. Those few vendors identifying themselves as involved exclusively in electronic imaging were the smallest companies of those surveyed. 81% September 1996 Hot Products Summary: New features include: compound document support, multi-library searching and the ability to store multiple forms of the same document. processing support. TeleForm Standard, Elite and Filler applications include features such as existing form support, networked reader and verifier modules, and management reporting tools. processing support. TeleForm Standard, Elite and Filler applications... 80% Printing falls prey to the Net, says report Summary: The survey--of 308 Xplor members--also reveals that 47% of document systems user companies report that they use a Web viewer to access digital documents. Another 40% say they use Adobe Acrobat for digital document access. E-mail, the Internet and intranets are now used as alternatives to low-volume document printing at 42% of the reporting user companies. One-third of the user companies surveyed... 80% Hot Products 11-18-96 Summary: . Harmonious disc. However, creation must be accomplished working on a Unix or Windows workstation. CDs caught in the Crossfire. More, better, faster removable storage. serious scanning. 79% Intranet research report learning hard lesso... Summary: Document management on the intranet. The inclusion of document management therefore becomes a crucial component of an intranet. With that, there's more going on than a simple porting of popular document management products to the intranet. If the approach to document management goes beyond Web accessibility, however, and the company utilizes document management technology specifically targeted at... 79% Drawing a document technology roadmap Summary: document management and electronic delivery. Document management for authoring or delivery? Tools for communicating and coordinating are perhaps more important, too, since authoring is more collaborative than viewing or delivering documents. Standards impact document delivery and management at the document, application, and communications levels. They are also the systems of choice for Web-only... 79% 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... 77% 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... 77% Multimedia meets the office Summary: and 17-in. So what's the hold-up? But it's more the deployment of it that's the hold-up as opposed to the technology." or 17-in. The 17-in.
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