Yamaha Corporation of America announces the introduction of the industry’s fastest internal and external rewritable CD recorders. The all-new, multi-platform LightSpeed CRW2100 Series models are capable of recording on CD-R discs at an industry-first top speed of 16X, writing a 74-minute CD in under five minutes; rewriting CD-RW discs at a top speed of 10X; and reading CDs at a sustained maximum rate of 40X. In addition, the CRW2100 Series allows users to rip audio CDs at a maximum speed of 40Xup to five times faster than conventional CD-RW recorders currently in the marketplace allowing digital audio extraction of a 74-minute audio disc in less than 3 minutes.
Yamaha developed the CRW2100 Series to take advantage of the partial Constant Angular Velocity (CAV) technology, a combination of CAV and standard Constant Linear Velocity (CLV), for optimum performance. To rewrite a CD-RW disc at up to 10x speed, the Lightspeed recorders use the full CAV recording method. “By applying partial CAV technology instead of the conventional CLV, our new recorders do not require additional time for controlling the rotation speed of the motor, allowing for faster, smoother recording”
The CRW2100 also incorporates the PurePhase Laser System, which improves jitter control by up to 25%. And the Optimum Write Speed Control that has the ability to decide the best recording speed possible. These are two more of Yamahas exclusive technologies that Yamaha has combined with a 8 Meg BUFFER virtually eliminating common buffer underruns.
The CRW2100 Series will feature four models: the internal CRW2100EZ using E-IDE (ATAPI) interface will ship in mid-October 2000, and the internal CRW2100SZ using Ultra SCSI (SCSI-3) interface will be available in late-October 2000. The external CRW2100SXZ using Ultra SCSI interface will ship in late-November 2000. The external CRW2100FXZ using IEEE 1394 FireWire technology will be available in early December 2000. The FireWire connection provides simple installation, reliable performance and fast recording speeds. All models are compatible with IBM PC compatibles and Macintosh computers.
Christmas could be very good this year if we all had one of these beautys to make our Backup copies of every CD in the house, not to mention how much time we would save getting all those MP3s hogging up our Hard drives