Addonics Technologies introduces a DVD/CDRW storage solution to play and burn CD's. It is a small device with a FireWire, CardBus and USB 2.0 interface. It includes a 8x DVD player, 8x CDRW burner and a 24x CD-ROM drive.
 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 popular 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 3600 KB/sec (24x CD) and 10,600 KB/sec (DVD 8x).
Every Pocket DVD/CDRW drive features a flexible interface connection, which allows users to connect to either USB, FireWire or CardBus ports on any computer by switching to the appropriate Addonics interface cable.
The USB version costs $399, the Firewire version $429 and the CardBus / PCMCIA Version version $415. You can read the full specifications on the Addonics website.
Source: yahoo
