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Technology Stocks : CD-R/RW and DVD Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stitch who wrote (4)	10/5/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40

>>...market comparisons between CD-RW and DVD. << I know next to nothing about DVD-RW/RAM/whatever. I think that CD-RW is the emerging Standard to replace much of the superfloppy market. Dreive prices are crashing down, and the media prices are ridiculously cheap. With new software like DirectCD that does UDF Packet Writing, you can essentially treat a CD-RW disc as a big drag and drop floppy drive (although by using Packet writing, you get about 500MB of usable space instead of a normal 650MB). The new Gateway 450mz already comes Standard with a CD-RW drive and a DVD-Rom drive. No Superfloppy like a Zip drive is included as Standard. And with new chipsets from Cirrus Logic and Hitachi coming to market soon, CD Burning will get MUCH faster and cheaper (Cirrus Logic has a 10x Rewrite and 40x read chipset in various CD-RW drives dubuting at Comdex 98) DVD-RW/RAm/whatever is more inclined towards intensive multimedia and complete drive backup and archival. It will be popular for these applications, but I think that CD-RW will remain much more popular and inexpensive.