It's already marketing a polycarbonate for optical media like CD-ROMs that can shorten customers' production cycles.
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.
The 8X Super Multi double-layer DVD drive lets customers read all types of DVD and CD media, so they can enjoy popular movies and games while on the go, as well as have access to music files and photos for downloading and sharing on websites.
Others' libraries have cut back on other media purchases, such as CD audiobooks, to free up funds for purchases of e-books.
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Verbatim will also introduce new 4X-certified CD-RW media at Comdex.
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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Manual, install CD (which basically just includes Windows Media 10, as the iRiver needs no drivers other than its firmware), charger, USB cable (attaches to the charger), the player, and a really crappy clear case for the unit.
You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection, making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the number of copies you can make.
Hallier says Show Media is close to inking a deal with a bank that might use it to flash updated CD rates in real time.
"One need only see what transpired with the iPod and its impact on CD purchases as well as other historical transformations such as digitizing records, Internet sales, online media, et cetera, for pre-existing protocol, " says Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist of Advisors Asset Management.
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