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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The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.

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Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.

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The program supports CD-R and CD-RW drives, Iomega (Zip, Jaz, etc.) drives, and several portable MP3 players.

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We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.

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We had the worst experiences with Ricoh's Media Master MP-6200S, a CD-RW drive, and MicroNet's Master CD Plus 4X12PC, a CD-R model.

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