Ricoh Offers 4x-10x Speeds.Ricoh Company's Disc Media and Systems Center (DMS-C) Division announced the development of Ricoh CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. 74 minute 10X media, a CD-RW disc. Ricoh has developed this disc compatible with writing/rewriting speeds of 4x to 10x to conform with the CD-RW standard, Orange Book Part III, Volume 2, Ver. 1.0. The company also announced it has developed a drive that records CDRW See CD-RW. at 10X. Announcements on both products will follow pending general availability sometime during the second quarter. The established new CD-RW standard Orange Book Part II, Volume 1, Ver. 1.0 allows writing and rewriting of 4x to 10x to meet the needs of CD writing and rewriting. (The existing Orange Book Part III, Volume 1, Ver. 2.0 enables lx, 2x, and 4x writing/rewriting.) Applications will include video, imaging, Internet, software development, multi-media presentations, and more. "This breakthrough in development was accomplished by fine-tuning the phasechange recording material used for the Ricoh CD-RW discs and by optimizing the film thickness of the materials," according to Tadatoshi Sakamaki, director and general manager of the DMS Division at Ricoh Company Ltd., Japan. This Ricoh CD-RW disc is writable/rewritable on CD-R/RW drive units compatible with the standard soon to be released by Ricoh and other drive manufacturers. It also has compatibility with other types of drive units so that disc data can be read on CD-R/RW drive units, MultiRead-enabled CDROM See CD-ROM. drive units, DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drive units, and DVD-RAM A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by the DVD Forum. Using phase change technology, DVD-RAMs are like removable hard disks, and the media can be rewritten 100,000 times compared to 1,000 times for DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first DVD-RAM drives with a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5. drive units. The CD-RW media's MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) is $4 per disc. |
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