HP Turns on DVD Technology

HP Turns on DVD Technology

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Jeff Burt
Jeff Burt
Sep 3, 2001
1 minute read
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Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to ship its first combination recordable DVD and CD drive for PCs starting this month.

HPs dvd100i drive will retail for $599 and enable users to record up to 4.7GB of information per DVD or 700MB per CD. Recordable DVDs will retail for $15.99 each, said officials in Palo Alto, Calif.

Recordable DVD drives are expected to replace CD-Rewritable drives as the storage medium of choice for PC users, but the lack of an industrywide format may hamper adoption. HP uses a DVD+RW format that it helped develop, but currently five incompatible formats are on the market.

For corporate users, DVD-RAM—developed by Panasonic—offers the greatest storage capacity. But unlike HPs DVD+RW, Panasonics design is not compatible with most DVD players.

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