Info about Yamaha CDR-W drives

As you already know the first CDR-W drive which will support 8x RW recording speed will be Yamaha 8824s since it ship this month (May 2000). Below is some information about what will happen with the new and the old CDR-W drives from Yamaha:

- The standard of ReWritable CD is classified in two categories

Background : According to the current standard, RW media cannot be given proper phase-changed face by faster writhing more than 4x.

- What will happen with Yamaha CDR-W drives?

The CRW8824 supports both standards above. Yamaha plans, in order to show the capability of high speed ReWriting, to print a special logo "High Speed RW" on a surface of the recorder. The recorder having this logo is able to use the high speed ReWitable CD.

All old recorders cannot burn the high speed ReWritable CD. The possibility of reading the burned high speed ReWritable CD depends on each recorders. In case of Yamaha, old recorders may not be able to recognize the high speed ReWritable CD and may give user's Computer environment instability. In order to improve this situation, Yamaha plans to give into their old models the read capability by updating firmware:

- Summary

For High Speed CD-RW writing, erasing, or reading, both the drive and the disc must bear the High Speed CD-RW logo. When using a CD-ROM drive to read this disc, the drive must be capable of reading CD-RW discs.