With speeding drives, falling prices, markets of CD-Rs, CD-RWs heat up

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The market for recordable CD and rewritable CD systems is expanding as prices fall and innovations are introduced. Worldwide sales of recordable CDs are projected to reach 1 billion units in 1999, while global sales of rewritable CD drives are expected to zoom by 138% to 11.4 million units in 1999. Market growth is expected to be further stimulated by the release of faster drives.

Magnetic and Optical Recording Media Manufacturing, Optical Discs, Drum Memories, Optical disks (Storage media), Optical disk drives

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Consumer, business markets perk up demand for large-capacity media and drives

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The demand for large-capacity removable discs and drive units is expanding, and the need for more storage has shifted the CD-R capacity from 650MB to 700MB. Demand is increasing in consumer and business markets.

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Yamaha introduces advanced, high-speed CRW2100 series of CD-R/RW drives

Article Abstract:

Yamaha has just introduced its CRW2100 series of CD-R/RW drives. The drives are used with personal computers and utilize the company's Pure-Phase Laser System to record high quality signals.

Product introduction, Yamaha Corp.

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