NEW ORLEANS, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The DVD+RW
Alliance, one of the sponsors of WinHEC 2003 to be held this week in New
Orleans, will demonstrate the Mt. Rainier capabilities of the DVD+RW format's
writing and editing capabilities at its WinHEC booth.
Mt. Rainier is the DVD writing specification to be
included in the next version of Windows.
The DVD+RW Alliance also will provide a 20-minute
presentation on the superior benefits of the DVD+R/+RW format at 1 p.m. Tuesday
in the WinHEC Theater.
"Once Mt. Rainier becomes available in the next
version of Windows, DVD+RW drives will work like any other drive on your
computer, with drag-and-drop file-editing and file-moving, random-access file
writing and built-in defect management," noted Maureen Weber, Worldwide Chair of
the DVD+RW Alliance. "DVD+RW is the only format on the market designed from the
beginning to take full advantage of the writing and editing capabilities of Mt.
Rainier.
"The DVD+RW Alliance is pleased to be a WinHEC
sponsor," added Weber, "We're looking forward to showing how well DVD+RW takes
unique advantage of the Mt. Rainier capabilities that will be built into the
next version of Windows."
In other WinHEC-related activities:
- Frank Simonis, commercial director, Philips
Optical Storage, will participate on behalf of the DVD+RW Alliance in a panel
discussion on writable DVD's at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. - The Alliance will demonstrate the use of a new
Serial ATA connection in a Dell PC to download video footage quickly and
easily from a digital camcorder to a personal computer.
About DVD+R/+RW
The DVD+R/+RW format is capable of recording up to
4.7 gigabytes of digital video, images or data. This equates to the storage
capacity of up to seven CD-R/RW discs and the potential to store thousands of
digital photographs or approximately two hours of digital video. The primary
benefit of DVD+R/+RW is its two-way compatibility, meaning that DVD+R and DVD+RW
media can be played in most DVD video players and DVD-ROM drives tested.
(IntelliKey Labs 9/02, 1/03 and 3/03 of 216 players and 36
DVD-ROMs).
Source: Yahoo.com
