• TDK, Calimetrics, MCC & Plextor to apply MultiLevel Recording Technology
  TDK announced the creation of a technology alliance with Calimetrics Inc., to apply Calimetrics' MultiLevel Recording (ML) technology to create a new recordable and rewritable optical disc format with three times the capacity and three times the speed of conventional CD-R/RW recording. The first products to incorporate the new MultiLevel Recording technology will be a new generation of computer drives built on the familiar CD-R/RW platform but with the ability to record more than 2 GB of data at 36X on specially formulated ML blank discs, as well as 700 MB of data on standard CD-R/RW discs at 12X...
• Radialogic announces High Performance CD Burning on MacOS with CD Master
  Radialogic announced the release of the long awaited CD Master v1.0. Users are now able to burn CDs asynchronously -- while continuing to use their computer for other tasks....
• GEAR Releases ''GEAR Pro for Windows 5.0'' Latest CD-RW Software
• Bringing the power of professional CD authoring and mastering to the end-user market, GEAR Software Inc. announced the release of GEAR Pro for Windows 5.0, the latest version of its best-selling CD-RW software...
• Macrovision Net Income Up 90 Percent
  Technology provider Macrovision Corp. on Monday reported a 90 percent increase in third quarter earnings, beating analysts' forecasts due to strong sales of its copy protection products.
• MP3 player puts new spin on tape decks
  Although the tape deck is near the end of its life, an MP3 player just hitting the market aims to give the venerable device a new purpose...

In Demo Mode the Binary Copy & FileSystem Copy options are enabled and the Specular Copy, Audio Copy, MakeIso & Burning options are disabled!

• C-Cube Extends DVD Leadership With New Super-Integrated Chip
  C-Cube further distanced itself from the competition by introducing the ZiVA-5 DVD system processor. The industry's most advanced DVD solution, ZiVA-5, builds on the company's proven ZiVA architecture and integrates a number of new features, including the industry's only full DVD-Audio solution, an MP3 audio codec, progressive-scan output, 2D-multiplane graphics engine, Internet applications, and more...
• National Semiconductor Announces Next Generation DVD-on-a-Chip
  National announced the second generation of its DVD-on-a-chip product family for the rapidly growing DVD player market. The National® Mediamatics(TM) NDV8501 chip, the first member of the second generation, provides a unique total system that delivers the high-quality playback demanded by the most discriminating consumers...
• Major-Label Artists Make Their Music Available for Sale in MP3 Through EMusic.com
  EMusic.com announced that several new albums by recording artists formerly signed to major label contracts are now available for purchase and download from its site...
• Yamaha & Oak Team Up to Drive Advances in Optical Recording Technology
  Oak & Yamaha announced a strategic partnership to drive advances in optical recording technologies. As a result, Yamaha unveiled the industry's first 16X CD-RW drive last week, which enables consumers creating compilation disks to copy a typical audio CD in just five minutes...
• Loudeye Announces Unprecedented Digital Media Encoding Milestones
  Loudeye announced that as of September 30, 2000, its Digital Media Centers had encoded over 6.1 million cumulative audio files and over 1.0 million cumulative minutes of video since the Company's inception...

• Oddball CD-R round-up @ Dan's Data
  Black ones. Green ones. Yellow ones. Blue ones. Pink ones, for heaven's sake. Little bitty ones. Even smaller oblong ones. 74 minute ones. 80 minute ones. 99 minute ones that hardly anybody can use. Suddenly, buying CD-Rs has become complicated. In the olden days, CD-Recordable media came in two basic flavours. There were brand name discs, that worked, and discs from funny unknown vendors that, well, often worked...

• Supports CD, VCD & MP3 Playback from CD-R & CD-RW media
• Buildin remote control
• Built-in 3.6v rechargeable Lithium Battery
• Bass Booster Sound Effect
• Output Jacks: Audio Out & Video Out
• LCD Display
• OSD display function for manipulating Songs/Track lists on TV
• Dimensions: 164х146х28 mm

• 32 MB Flash Memory expandable to 64 or 128 MB
• SMC flash expansion socket
• USB Interface
• FM receiver & Voice Recording
• LCD & OSD track list
• Bass Booster
• LCD display
• 2x AAA Battery
• Various EQ Modes: Bass1, Jazz, Flat, Classic, Rock, Super Bass
• Repeat Playback (Single track and all tracks)

• Standards: DVD, SVCD, VCD, CD-R, CD-RW, HDCD and MP3
• Region-Free (1-6)
• Video Outputs: SCART, S-Video & Composite video
• Audio Digital Outputs: Coax/Optical, Dolby Digital (AC-3), PCM 8
  channel & DTS (Digital Theatre System)
• Audio Analog Outputs: Dolby Digital READY (AC-3 READY) 6 channels RCA & Stereo/Dolby/Surround/Prologic 2 channels RCA

• Iomega Ships 12X10X32X Internal CD-RW Drive
  Iomega today announced shipment of the newest and fastest drive in its CD-RW product lineup: the internal 12X10X32X ATAPI Iomega CD-RW drive...
• Intelligent Automation Exploits `Fingerprints' for Bullet Matching and CD Piracy
  Based on this success, Intelligent Automation is now extending its expertise in forensic technology to address a major problem of industrial theft -- the pirating of CD's, CD-ROM's and DVD's...
• Warner attempts to out-hack DVD hackers
  Time Warner's home video division has changed DVD's region coding scheme to make it even harder to play movies sold in one territory in another. Other DVD distributors are expected to follow suit. Sony subsidiary Columbia Tristar has already agreed to do so...
• TTR Completes Prototype in Breakthrough Protection Against DVD-DVD Piracy
  TTR announced the completion of the first prototype protecting DVD's against digital piracy.
  The new patent pending technology successfully leverages TTR's copy protection technology originally developed to protect CD-ROM's and CD's against software and music content piracy...

• 16x Write, 10x ReWrite & 40x Read (Full CAV)
• 8 MB Memory Buffer
• DAE at maximum 40x speed!
• Supports CD-R80 media.
• Full CD TEXT support

• Pure Phase Laser System for extremely precise digital recording.
• Running Optimum Power Calibration (ROPC) to ensure that optimum laser output power is adjusted for each disc.
• Optimum Write Speed Control ensures that a CD-R media is written at it's maximum recordable speed, the drive will automatically slow down the writing speed when it detects a lesser quality media.

It is currently available at an estimates US$ 349.00

• IDE/Atapi Interface (DMA33)
• 12x Write, 10x ReWrite, 32x CD Read & 8x DVD Read
• 2 MB Memory Buffer
• DAE at maximum 32x Speed!
• Software: Prassi PrimoCD Plus, Prassi abCD & InterVideo WinDVD 2000

It is currently available at an estimates US$ 179.00

• IDE/Atapi Interface (DMA16)
• 8x Write, 8x ReWrite, 32x Read
• 2 MB Memory Buffer
• Software: Prassi PrimoCD Plus & Prassi abCD