Pace of New 1394/FireWire Product Introductions Continues in Fourth Quarter; Features New Storage Products, Tablet and Notebook PCs, DVD/CD-RWs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2002 New Set of Motherboards Also Now Incorporates IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 The roster of 1394-equipped consumer and computer products continued its rapid expansion during the fourth calendar quarter, featuring a group of new tablet computers, notebooks, and storage devices, along with new digital cameras and televisions. An impressive set of PC motherboards with 1394 also signaled FireWire's continued worldwide expansion. At the top of the list: notebook and tablet PCs introduced prior to or during this year's Las Vegas Comdex. They include the Toughbook 50 notebook from Panasonic, the Gateway 400x and the Innodesk Laptop from Innodesk. New tablet PCs are from Tatung, along with Viewsonic's V1100, Fujitsu's ST Stylistic, and Motion Computing's M1200 Tablet. Among other new notebooks and desktops with 1394: CyberPower's XP-AV Media Pro; Sony's VAIO (Video Audio Integrated Operation) Sony's trade name for its desktop and laptop PCs. In mid-1998, Sony introduced its 505G series of subnotebooks that were the first in ultra-thin Pentium portables. PCV-RX790G and VAIO PCV-W10; and Polywell's Poly 884RF-2700. New motherboards with 1394 are Via Technologies' P4PB 400 Mainboard Same as motherboard. , joining an impressive list of FireWire-equipped motherboards from ABIT A`bit´ 1. 3d sing. pres. of Abide. , ASUSTek, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI MSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer. (2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. . A full list is at this address: http://www.1394ta.org/About/products/computer_products.html "In the ramp up to Comdex, and now to the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the pace of introductions has continued strong throughout 2002, including an impressive number of 1394-enabled motherboards," said James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association. "More than 1,000 powerful new computer and consumer products equipped with FireWire reached the market this year alone, and now we are preparing for the first new systems incorporating the ultra fast 1394b version of the standard in early 2003. There is a lot of momentum, worldwide." New 1394-equipped televisions and digital video cameras include RCA's D34W2 16:9 HD CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. TV. New cameras include JVC's GY-DV300 miniDV Camcorder and Panasonic's AJ-D410AP DVCPRO Panasonic's variant of the DV (Digital Video) format, which provides higher quality by increasing tape speed and track width. It uses metal particle tape for added reliability and also adds a cueing track for enhanced editing. . New DVD/CD RW products include LaCie's D2 DVD-RW (DVD-Read Write) A rewritable (re-recordable) DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD Forum. Also called "DVD Dash RW" and "DVD Minus RW," DVD-RW uses phase change recording. The media hold 4.7GB per side and can be rewritten 1,000 times. U&I; Sony's DRX-500A Internal DVD Recorder; and the CD000176 DVD/CD-RW from CenDyne. Also, Dat Technologies introduced its SpeedBurnII-48 48x12x48x and SpeedBurnII-40 40x12x48x External FireWire/USB CDRWs. Storage, Peripherals, Industrial Applications, Video Editing A new set of storage devices from Apple Computer include the 5GB iPod, 10GB iPod and the 20GB iPod. Also introduced: BenQ's 2410MR Mini RW Portable Drive. New CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. peripherals include four new models of FireWire Pocket Hard Drives, the FWABS-20.0 20GB, 30GB, 40GB and 60GB ABSplus FireWire Pocket Hard Drives; several SpeedZter Pocket drives from Dat Technologies; and a set of FireWire and USB/FireWire HDD enclosures from DataFab. Also, there are five new CobraSlim FireWire pocket hard drives from EZQuest, ranging from 10GB to 60GB, and three from Glyph A displayed or printed image. In typography, a glyph may be a single letter, an accent mark or a ligature. See grapheme. (character) glyph - An image used in the visual representation of characters; roughly speaking, how a character looks. A font is a set of glyphs. Technologies -- the 80 GB, 120GB and 160GB DV Project Towers. A new set of Combo ION FireWire/USB2.0 drives, ranging from 20GB to 120GB from IOGEAR were introduced along with Iomega's 10GB and 20GB Peerless Pocket Hard Drives, Lava's FireDrive IDE HDD; four new pocket drives from LaCie, ranging from 20GB to 60GB; and Pacific Digital's USB/1394 Drive. For industrial applications using IEEE 1394, there is the F-View II FireWire Fluorescence Camera from Soft Imaging Systems, along with Sony's XCD-SX900UV Camera. Pinnacle's Studio DV 8 Targa 30000 Video Capture Card See video capture board. represents the new entry in digital video editing technology built around FireWire. Also now available is a wide range of host adapter kits and cards. For a complete list of the latest 1394-equipped consumer and computer products, components and cards -- along with those released earlier in 2002 -- please visit http://www.1394ta.org/About/products/ The 1394 Trade Association is an international organization dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the IEEE 1394/FireWire multimedia standard. For more information, www.1394ta.org. |
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