SAN DIEGO, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomega
Corporation, a global leader in data storage, today entered the writeable DVD
market with the new Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive. With 4x2.4x12x DVD performance
and 16x10x40x CD-RW (write/rewrite/read) capabilities, Iomega's new Dual DVD
ATAPI drive lets creative enthusiasts use a single drive to save and share their
music, photos, videos and more.
Fast, Efficient, Easy To Use
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive is a complete
hardware-software solution that offers compatibility with today's DVD-based
devices. In fact, the DVD+R/+RW standard was designed for compatibility with
consumer DVD-video players, so standard DVD players can replay a DVD+RW disc
without requiring a time-consuming "finalization" process at the end of a
recording session. Digital audio enthusiasts will also appreciate the drive's
32x audio ripping speeds (DAE) and buffer under run protection for extra
reliability.
"The new Iomega Dual DVD drive features recording
capability for six optical disc formats, providing broad disc compatibility with
the optical drives people use today," said Sean Burke, vice president of mobile
and desktops products for Iomega. "The Iomega Dual DVD drive features high burn
speeds and easy-to-use software, showing Iomega's commitment to serving our
customers' storage needs with competitive features that are easy to use."
Multiple Recording and Rewrite Capabilities
The Iomega Dual DVD ATAPI drive can read and record
DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW formats. In addition to its
re-writeable capabilities, the new Iomega Dual DVD ATAPI drive will also read
CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. The drive records up to two hours of high quality DVD
video or other data on a 4.7 GB DVD disc, and up to 700 MB of video, music, or
image data on a CD disc. With the Dual DVD ATAPI drive and a flatbed scanner,
slide scanner, or analog video capture card, users can also transfer old videos
and photos to optical DVD or CD formats for safekeeping and archiving.
Additional Software Included
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive comes with
software valued at over $179.95, including MyDVD video editing software,
Sonic(TM) Cineplayer software for the highest quality video playback, Sonic
MyDVD(TM) video-editing software, MusicMatch(TM) Jukebox music management
software and Adobe® ActiveShare photo management software. Also included is
Iomega's award- winning HotBurn® software, which allows for easy 2-step CD
burning, and Iomega's own Automatic Backup software which makes data backups to
DVD or CD hassle-free. Iomega Automatic Backup was recently honored as a PC
Magazine Editor's Choice for real-time backup software (June 17, 2003, issue).
Pricing and Availability
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive is available in
the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Suggested retail pricing is $ 329.95 (U.S.
pricing only) at select retail stores and at www.iomega.com.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value
storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and share their
digital valuables. Iomega's award-winning storage products include the popular
Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB drives, high-performance Iomega® HDD Portable Hard
Drives, Iomega® HDD Desktop Hard Drives, the Iomega® Mini USB Drive, Iomega®
external CD-RW drives, the Iomega® DVD+RW Internal Drive, and the Iomega® Floppy
USB-Powered Drive. Iomega simplifies data protection and sharing at home and in
the workplace with Iomega® Automatic Backup software, Iomega® Sync software,
HotBurn® CD-recording software, and Active Disk(TM) technology. For networks,
Iomega® NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.4TB. For unlimited capacity
and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega offers iStorage(TM), the secure online
storage choice. Iomega also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data
recovery services solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure,
file corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA
(888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com.
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