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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (3767)	9/23/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: Jim Switz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Well, you don't have to have a CD-R or CD-RW to save the video captures (any media will do, at 10MB/minute of video according to the spec sheet on ADPT's website), but of course you'll need one to save and distribute in CD-video format. I don't think writeable DVD drives are readily available to consumers (at least I haven't heard of one), and I don't know if they write conventional CD formats. But a conventional CD-R or CD-RW drive is available fairly inexpensively these days, the media is cheap and you can get over 60 minutes of video on one, so I don't see a pressing need for the DVD format yet, except to play back commercial movies. If you have an interest in or a need for VideOH!, the price of the drive and media shouldn't be much of an obstacle. As far as I know, the DVD playback drives shipping with many computers are fully capable of playing all CD formats.