Cebit 2001 Show

Review Pages

1. Overview
2. Acer
3. Afreey
4. Aopen
5. Asus
6. BrainWave
7. Compro
8. Cyber Drive
9. Disc4You
10. Freecom
11. FujiFilm
12. Gigastorage
13. HiSpace
14. HP
15. Infineon: System-on-a-Chip CD/DVD Solution
16. Maxell
17. Mitsumi
18. Panasonic ships DVD-R/RAM combo drive
19. Pioneer
20. Plextor
21. Prassi/Veritas
22. Primera
23. Ricoh
24. Ritek
25. Seiko
26. SKC
27. Sony
28. TDK (1)
29. TDK (2)
30. New super high capacity CD technology
31. High-speed CyClone 24/10/40 from TDK
32. TEAC
33. Verbatim
34. Waitec
35. Yamaha
36. Yamaha Combines Speed and Stability in New CD-R/RW drives

TDK in Cebit 2001 - Page 2

Media

TDK presented in Cebit 2001 a new series of DVD-R, colourful CDR media and mini 3" CDs (used for portable Mp3 CD players). Note that TDK haven't still presented 24x compatible media since it is still developing. However TDK's 24x media would be available when the CyClone 24x writer would be out in May/June 2001.

TDK is not supporting the DVD+RW format. Why? The answer seems to be that the DVD+RW format hasn't come from the DVD-Forum and that it is closed (companies must pay for getting the licences in order to support it). However if the DVD+RW format becomes the next major DVD Re-Writing standard TDK will support it:

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