Pocket DVD/CDRW Drive

(DialinfoLinkelectronics.com) -- Mar. 13, 2002 -- The Addonics Pocket DVD/CDRW drive is the smallest and most flexible storage solutions available with its high-speed FireWire, CardBus and USB 2.0 interfaces and interchangeable cable. The drive features an 8x DVD player, 8x CDRW burner, and a 24x CD-ROM drive inside a 143mm x 135mm x 22mm enclosure.

Addonics bundles the Pocket DVD/CDRW drive with CD mastering software, and MPEG-2 decoding software for DVD movie playback.

The combined DVD/CDRW allows users to buy a single drive to add DVD movie playback, CDRW and CD-ROM functions to any computer via one USB, FireWire or CardBus connection.

The drive can record data to CDRW media in five modes: Track at Once, Multisession, Disc at Once, Session at Once, and Packet Writing.

The drive is also compatible with eight different multimedia formats, including: DVD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-I, CD-DA, CD-Bridge, CD-Extra, and Video CD.

It will read five popular CDRW recording formats: Track at Once, Multi-Session, Disc at Once, Session at Once, and Packet Writing. The Pocket DVD/CDRW has a data transfer rate of 3600kB/s (24x CD) and 10,600kB/s (DVD 8x).

No software drivers are required for connecting via the USB or FireWire ports on computers running Windows Me, 2000 and XP. Software drivers included are for Windows 98SE and for CardBus connection.

Addonics also manufactures a line of optional controllers, which includes a USB 2.0 card, FireWire card and CardBus FireWire adapter for upgrading notebook or desktop PCs to high speed interfaces. BITS 02 9310 3199.

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