CD-ROMs, on the other hand, offered nearly limitless opportunities for creativity with their video-rich multimedia interfaces.
It's already marketing a polycarbonate for optical media like CD-ROMs that can shorten customers' production cycles.
It reads DVD- and CD-ROMs, and its MPEG decoder interface connected seamlessly to the ATI video card.
Companies are also improving technology to enhance inventory tags, and are using CD-ROMs to train employees interactively on spotting suspicious behavior.
But Kodak also plunged into the fiercely competitive digital storage game with recordable CD-ROMs (Photo CD) and optical disks.
While preparing the Matiz for a fourth-quarter launch, Daewoo has started sending 1.5 million mailers and CD-ROMs to potential buyers.
Besides the game market, there's a world of PCs to conquer -- graphics accelerators make videogame and other interactive CD-ROMs more lively.
In all, there are about 1, 000 photographs on three CD-ROMs. Many of the photographs are of sites in Iraq, similar to tourist photographs.
Andrew Cushing's company, Tacklesport, based in Worcester, England, supplies interactive CD-ROMs of different sports throughout the world, from top-level teams to school teachers.
This is a revenue opportunity for virtual schools and specialized portals that offer everything from free advice, reading lists, worksheets, books and CD-ROMs to subscription K-12 packages.
It will also support Garmin's MapSource CD-ROMs for detailed street maps and will be compatible with topographic maps and nautical maps, like Garmin's BlueChart and Fishing Hot Spots.
If the 295 trillion megabytes (or, exabytes) of stored information were saved on CD-ROMs, the stack of CDs would stretch from the Earth to beyond the moon, according to Hilbert and Lopez.
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From the 1980s, when computer-based education started to be delivered through CD-ROMs, e-learning has boomed, paving the way for several private players and government agencies which create and deliver e-learning systems today.
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Unfortunately, the N64 version doesn't include nearly as much commentary, because the cartridges have limited capabilities compared to CD-ROMs. But on a PlayStation or PC, you'll be treated to great commentary after every big play.
Like his role model, Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon.com, Bhan aims to expand beyond books and CD-ROMs. This year he plans to offer medical journal subscriptions, supplies such as stethoscopes and eventually a host of services for busy doctors and nurses -- everything but vacations.
Like his role model, Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon.com, Bhan aims to expand beyond books and CD-ROMs. This year he plans to offer medical journal subscriptions, supplies such as stethoscopes and eventually a host of services for busy doctors and nurses -- everything but time off.
Next week at Comdex, Verbatim will roll out the 4420, which the company claims is the first CD-RW drive that offers 4X write on both CD-R and CD-RW media. (Current drives are limited to 2X write speeds for CD-RW.) The drive reads CD-ROMs, CD-R, and CD-RW media at 20X.
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