Slim DVD-ROM fattens Matsushita's chances in notebook PCs

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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics Co. Ltd. are offering the SR-8171 DVD-ROM drive, one of the first DVD-ROM drives designed for notebook computers. The 12.7mm-thick drive uses one of the smallest, lightest pickups available. Because the pickup uses two lasers, the drive can reproduce signals from CD-ROMs, rewritable CDs and recordable CDs. When working with DVDs, the drive attains 2x data transfer speeds with the use of an LSI chip set and an integrated optical pickup for DVDs. With CD-ROMs, the drive delivers a 20x transfer speed for data reproduction.

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Is offering the SR-8171 DVD-ROM drive, one of the first DVD-ROM drives designed for notebook computers

Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Ltd., Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industry Ltd., Article

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DVD-ROM drive accommodates Ultra DMA format

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Matsushita Kotobuki Electric Industrial Company Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co's SR-8583 DVD-ROM drive is among the first models for built-in use to incorporate the new Ultra DMA data transmitting format. The product is capable of transmitting data at five times the regular speed of the DVD mode. In addition, the optical disc control LSI features a rapid DRAM that incorporates the Ultra DMA (Mode 2) data transmission format.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

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Matsushita helps large-capacity MO drives gain acceptance

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Magneto-optical (MO) discs and drives are the most popular large-capacity removable, rewritable disc system in Japan. Highly reliable and offering fast access speed, the 230MB drive can write data on and read data from both 128MB and 230MB discs. The 640MB and the 1.3GB drive can also do the same for lower-capacity MO discs. This capability saves the users money by allowing the use of less-expensive lower-capacity discs.

Magnetic and Optical Recording Media Manufacturing, Optical Discs, Optical disks (Storage media)

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