Short Take: A standard for rewritable CDs
Five companies unveiled a standard for rewritable compact discs. The firms are Philips Electronics, Sony, Mitsubishi Chemical, Ricoh, and Hewlett-Packard. The first products are expected in early 1997. HP said it led the development of MultiRead CD and Version 1.5 of the Universal Disk Format (UDF) specifications. Both are needed to enable CD ROM and DVD ROM drives to read rewritable discs.
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Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time.
Five companies unveiled a standard for rewritable compact discs. The firms are , Sony, Mitsubishi Chemical, Ricoh, and Hewlett-Packard. The first products are expected in early 1997. HP said it led the development of MultiRead CD and Version 1.5 of the Universal Disk Format (UDF) specifications. Both are needed to enable CD ROM and DVD ROM drives to read rewritable discs.