CD TurboWriter RW Balances
High-Speed Performance with Versatility
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--June 15, 1999--Smart and Friendly, the industry's largest
privately held manufacturer of CD-Recorder and CD-ReWritable
products, announced Tuesday the new CD TurboWriter RW (TM) with 6x
Write, 4x ReWrite and 24x Playback capability.
Leading the market as the
industry's first CD-RW solution to record a full 650MB CD in less
than 12 minutes, the CD TurboWriter RW is ideal for the growing
high performance demands of individuals, corporate, and power
users.
This next-generation CD-RW
solution includes a broad range of popular software applications
and utilities providing users with a low cost, industry standard
solution for multiple applications.
Offering high-speed recording for
pennies per megabyte, the CD TurboWriter RW is the ideal next-step
solution for novices and professionals who want to create, record,
edit, ReWrite, archive, manage and share not just data, but music,
photos and video on a single, removable, 650MB disc.
The CD TurboWriter RW's 2MB buffer
ensures smooth, uninterrupted file transfer and flawless playback.
With nearly 800 million CD drives and audio players installed
worldwide, Smart and Friendly's new CD TurboWriter RW is also an
excellent solution for low-cost duplication and distribution of
databases and training videos.
"The CD TurboWriter RW provides
consumers with a choice," said Perry Solomon, president and chief
executive officer of Smart and Friendly. "Users can buy a 6x4x24
from us and get more powerful software, more speed, more
convenience and more performance for about the same price they
would pay for a 4x4x24 from someone else."
Software applications include:
-- Adaptec Easy CD Creator Standard Edition: Enables users to
create music, audio, data, video or mixed-mode CDs. Easy CD
Creator runs on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
-- Adaptec Toast for MacIntosh: (available in external model
only) Users can create data, audio or multimedia CDs with
just a few mouse clicks. This application enables users to
compile favorite audio tracks from different sources as well
as store and distribute data files, graphics, images and
video quickly and easily.
-- PowerQuest Drive Image: Drive Image is the leading backup
and disaster recovery software package on the market today.
Drive Image enables the user to create bootable CD-R or
CD-RW discs for disaster recovery or for hard drive upgrade
that can be run on any CD-ROM drive. PowerQuest Drive Image
also gives users the flexibility to back up selected
partitions or an entire disc to CD-R or CD-RW media. For
discs larger than the capacity of one CD-R disc, back up
data can be spanned across multiple CD-R or CD-RW discs.
-- Sonic Foundry CD Architect: Writes studio-quality audio CDs,
samples audio from compact discs, records from DAT
cartridges or digitizes material through a
Windows-compatible sound card. Provides extensive support
for PQ editing -- including track times, adjusting gaps
between tracks from 0 to unlimited seconds, and printed cue
sheets.
-- Sonic Foundry Sound Forge XP: Composes professional-quality
digital audio files with more than 25 digital audio effects
and processes. Sound Forge also lets users incorporate audio
into web page design.
-- Diamond Cut Audio Restoration Tools 32: Cleans up clicks and
pops from phonograph record source audio; removes hiss from
cassette and reel to reel tape, and enhances CD audio
recordings. Audio enhancement capabilities produce excellent
audio masters for recording to CD.
-- MediaPath MediaAgent: The most comprehensive software-only
CD-ROM, network access and management solution. Efficiently
find, use and manage CD-ROM resources.
-- ECI Disc Inspector Pro: A complete utility package ensures
that your discs are written correctly. Disc Inspector Pro
includes data compare, lost session recovery, CD Table of
Contents display, and more.
-- Smart and Friendly CD Consultant: Simplifies the
installation process. This utility gives users the ability
to automatically install the software applications they
select from among those received with the CD TurboWriter RW.
For Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0.
For easy integration into Windows
NT, Windows 95/98, and Macintosh-based environments, the CD
TurboWriter RW External features a Plug-and-Play PCI SCSI 2 host
adapter with external connectors for easy hook-up of as many as
seven SCSI devices.
The internal version of the CD
TurboWriter RW features an ultra fast ATAPI connection. Both
versions will begin shipping in June and will have an estimated
street price (ESP) of $349 for the internal solution and $449 for
the external solution.
About Smart and Friendly: Smart
and Friendly Inc. is recognized as the industry's largest
privately held manufacturer of CD-Recordable, CD-ReWritable,
CD-ROM, and optical storage technology. The company was recently
named the country's Number One Supplier to Retail of CD-Recorders
and CD-ReWritable products by Personal Technology Research (PTR),
publishers of the HOT Market Monitor USA.
Smart and Friendly was also
selected by NewMedia Magazine as one of the digital media
industry's most influential suppliers, and placed on the NewMedia
500 List. Smart and Friendly President and Chief Executive Officer
Perry Solomon was recently named to the board of directors,
serving as chairman of the Marketing Development Committee, of the
Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA).
Smart and Friendly products are
available at leading retail outlets including American TV, Best
Buy, CDW, CompUSA, ComputAbility, Damark, DataVision, Fred Meyer,
Fry's Electronics, the good guys!, Insight Direct, J&R
Computer World, Micro Center, MicroWarehouse, Nationwide
Computers, Nebraska Furniture Mart, PC Connection, Staples and Wal*Mart
and to resellers through D&H, Ingram Micro, Merisel, and Tech
Data. Smart and Friendly products are available internationally
through a network of in-country distributors and globally through
CHS, Ingram Micro and Tech Data.
For product and sales information,
contact Smart and Friendly at 20520 Nordhoff Street, Chatsworth,
CA 91311; http://www.smartandfriendly.com.
Phone 800/959-7001 or
818/772-8001, fax 818/772-2888. Smart and Friendly also offers
free technical support over a toll-free line.
Keywords: Adaptec, CD-R, CD-ROM,
CD-RW, Hewlett Packard, H-P, NewMedia, OSTA, Personal Technology
Research, Philips, Recordable, ReWritable, Smart and Friendly,
Sonic Foundry, storage, Yamaha, Zip
Smart and Friendly is a registered
trademark and CD TurboWriter RW is a trademark of Smart and
Friendly Inc. Any other product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Smart and Friendly Inc. (company)
Perry Solomon, 818/772-8001
[email protected]
www.smartandfriendly.com
or
Beyond Words Ltd. (editorial)
Tracy Laidlaw, 602/569-0222
[email protected]
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