Samsung COMBO CD-R/CD-RW/DVD Drive
Posted on 28/04/00 14:20 by Jan Willem                             
Samsung COMBO CD-R/CD-RW/DVD Drive
Submitted by: arnesr
Source: http://www.pcextremist.com/

Samsung Introduces COMBO CD-R/CD-RW/DVD Drive

Samsung certainly seems to be busy, the company has announced the introduction of a Combo drive, like the Toshiba and Ricoh drives announced recently (both now shipping) that combines CD-R/CD-RW rewritable technology with DVD technology.

Officially called the COMBO (SM-304) , the drive provides 4X CD-Recording, 4X CD-ReWritable, 24X CD-ROM reading and 4X DVD-ROM reading speeds in a single drive. The drive sports 120ms DVD and 110ms CD average access times, a 2MB cache buffer, EIDE/ATAPI interface and relies on Adaptec's Easy CD Creator and Direct CD software for recording/rewritable chores. It also included is cyberlink's PowerDVD software for DVD movie decoding. The retail bundle will be priced at $349 and begins shipping May 1st, 2000.
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By Unknown, Sat 29 Apr 2000 12:11
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Thats cool.. But I heard the Ricoh drives do not play DVD real well and have a few bugz still.. But the idea is definately a good one..
By Unknown, Sat 29 Apr 2000 15:45
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It does not make much sense to me. I never use my recorder to play CD's, nor will I use it to watch DVD movies. But maybe they'll support DVD-writing too in the future, and the reading is just a step in the right direction...

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