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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group
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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (830)6/19/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: FruJu  Read Replies (1) of 5023
 
Iomega to Brand a CD-RW drive

Thanks for finding confirmation of this, Rocky. At least it's competitive, at 4x4x24x, and $300 seems to be in the right ballpark judging by what I've seen elsewhere.

I wonder what interfaces they'll use on it. Personally, I'd like a nice Iomega-style colored external device with a Firewire interface to compete with Sony's upcoming ext. Firewire CD-RW, but I presume they'll go with SCSI for any external.

Of course, I can't see why a company would OEM a drive from Iomega when it was actually built by Philips. Am I missing something? And there's no high margin CD-RW media to sell. On the other hand, if they're sourcing them from Philips, they won't have the same degree of manufacturing problems/costs associated with Zip and Jaz. ZipCD is great name (building off Zip awareness).

As someone else mentioned earlier on the thread, if Iomega actually got into the business of innovating in this area, a DVD-RAM device which could also write CD-R and CD-RW would be a mega-product.
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