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Re Write-able Media
Texas Instruments announced August 8th 2001 the
First DMD technology in a Consumer Product...
Here
I've been waiting for this for a Very Long Time
How about $99 for the above by March 2003?
How about 5 brands & 9 models @ 1/2" thin?
In 1998 1.5 million dvd players were sold.
In 1999 4 million dvd players were sold.
In 2000 10 million dvd players were sold...
In 2001 28 million dvd players were sold...
Do We See A Trend Here meisters?
Recordable DVD formats by Manufacturer
DVD-R AND DVD-RW
SHARP, PIONEER, LG OF KOREA
DVD-RAM
PANASONIC, HITACHI, SAMSUNG, TOSHIBA
DVD+RW
SONY, HP, RCA, PHILLIPS, YAMAHA & JVC
Beginning 2001 July Pioneer DVR-103 drive will sell for $995 and blanks
will sell with it for about $10. How about this? In 1998 Pioneer introduced
the industry's very FIRST DVD recorder that held 3.7 GB of images and
data in one layer and on one side for Only $17,000! The discs were only
a hundred dollars a pop and there were no mistakes of any kind, otherwise
it went into the garbage... Now we are at 4.7 GB and two sided recordings
will double that and you can re-write anytime and any amount... mistakes
are a worry of the past. The biggest News... the discs can play on Most
current and future DVD players... Amen to that!
The New Apple Titanium will be the first Re-writeable DVD/CD burner in a
Laptop once the Velocity Engine 733 Chip Processor comes to market later
G4 1 GHz Power PC Arrived finally Jan 2003
2001 The Year VHS Replaced by DVD
Pixie -Dust...
It has come to my attention that there seems to
be a lot of interest on a subject touched on here
some time ago... but instead of being theoretical
it now exists and may replace all memory mediums
as we now know them!
Once Upon A Time, IBM came to a convention in
NYC called PCExpo and showed off a little tiny
Hard Disc Drive set inside a tiny box usually made
to hold wooden matches. Could be 256MB, maybe
512MB or even more... lot more. Well those drives
are all out and about now and they are more often
than not: 1GB!... but THAT is Not the "Lot More!"
Enter "Pixie Dust"...where a 'Ruthenium' layer is placed
between a HDD magnetic layers which allows particles
to fit in the same space but seem smaller to the data bits
which will then cause an increase in capacity exponentially.
How much are we talking about... welllll, that little mickey
mouse HDD up above inside a match box... could be 'well
over 400GB' imagine that... if you can. How about a little
