Pioneer DVD recordable. Read Time Magazine's 75th anniversary issue. There's a news clip from 1983 that describes the new world of audio CD, with CD players from Sony and Pioneer retailing for $800-1000 (1983 dollars). We all know what happened with audio CDs.........
Pioneer DVD-Recordable Drives Now Available With Prassi DVD Rep
Pre-mastering Software; DVR-S101 Is The First DVD-R Drive To Market
LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1998--Pioneer New Media Technologies Monday announced the
availability of its DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) drive, the DVR-S101, bundled with DVD Rep software from Prassi Software
USA, and five blank DVD-R discs.
Pioneer's SCSI-2 DVD-R drive provides a data transfer rate of 1,428 kilobytes, offers a data buffer capacity of 4MB and
features a tray loading system for easy disc handling. DVD Rep is a Win 32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT) professional
software application for DVD-R mastering.
Together, these products bring the first fully functional DVD-R drive to market, allowing users to create a disc image file and
record on the desktop.
DVD-R is a write-once medium that can store any type of digital information such as video, audio, images, multimedia titles
and data files. DVD-R discs are usable on any DVD playback device including DVD-ROM drives and DVD video players.
"The Pioneer/Prassi bundle provides the DVD mastering market with the only DVD-R solution available," said Paul
Dempsey, senior vice president of marketing and sales at Pioneer New Media Technologies. "This is a powerful product
offering that is incredibly easy-to-use."
The DVD-R format is fundamentally similar to that of CD-R. Like CD-R, blank DVD-R discs are recorded in the DVD-R
drive which is controlled by a host computer. The recording process is orchestrated by DVD Rep application software which
allows the user to specify which files will be transferred to the disc as well as control the actual recording itself. Data can be
written to or read from a DVD disc at 1,428 kilobytes -- roughly nine times the transfer rate of a "1x" CD-ROM drive.
DVD Rep masters on-the-fly or via disc image in the UDF/ISO bridge or pure UDF file system, and DVD disc copy from
SCSI or ATAPI DVD-ROM drives. UDF/ISO bridge is a DVD-R file system that provides both the newer UDF (Universal
Disc Format) system as well as the older ISO-9660 system used by the CD-ROM format.
This allows DVD discs to be used with computer operating systems that do not have a provision for UDF support for
enhanced compatibility.
"Pioneer's DVD-R drive with DVD-Rep software will address the unique needs of the growing professional DVD-R
mastering market," said Paolo Barettoni, vice president, research and development, at Prassi Software. "We're committed to
providing innovative, practical, quality solutions to this key market."
Conforming with version 1.0 of the DVD-R specification, the drive offers 3.95GB capacity per disc -- roughly six times more
than a CD-R disc. Pioneer's DVD-R drive is ideal for short-run, desktop DVD authoring and long-term data archival.
In addition, since DVD discs are dimensionally identical to CDs, they are compatible with existing jukebox and changer
mechanisms. This will allow networked environments to easily adopt this technology for high-capacity archive applications and
serve as a natural extension of CD-R by facilitating faster information flow and providing significantly more data per volume.
The DVR-S101 bundle is now shipping with Prassi pre-mastering software and includes five free blank DVD-R discs. The
drive is available at a suggested list price of $16,995. Additional DVD-R discs are available from Pioneer at a U.S. suggested
list price of $49.95.
Prassi Software USA
Prassi Software USA Inc. was founded in 1996 to provide software solutions for the CD and DVD recording market. Based
in San Jose, Prassi is committed to providing innovative, practical, quality software solutions for professional CD and DVD
recording through its OEM, VAR and distribution partners.
Pioneer New Media Technologies
Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. is dedicated to bringing the very best of leading-edge technology to market. Pioneer
invented the world's first multiple-disc CD-ROM changer and offered the first multifunction optical drive capable of reading
and writing to both MO and WORM. The Optical Division's products include DVD-Recordable and DVD-ROM drives;
CD-ROM drives, changers and jukeboxes; optical drives; MO, WORM, CD-R and DVD-R media for a wide range of
storage solutions in the educational, government, legal, banking, medical, insurance, finance, industrial and general business
markets.
For more information, contact Pioneer New Media Technologies at 2265 E. 220th Street, Long Beach, Calif. 90810; phone:
310/952-2111 or 888/444-DVDR (3837); URL: www.pioneerusa.com
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