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ZDNet and PC Magazine bring us some great information about DVD-R and DVD-RAM drives. The links below are some great reviews about some newer DVD products. Some of the links even come from ZDNet UK. The reviews are a nice way to find out how a product performs before actually purchasing it.

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This is a DVD fact page that Toshiba has put together. It explains about the technology that Toshiba is using in their DVD manufacturing. I thought that is was informative about how a DVD works. This helps when trying to learn more about DVD-R and DVD-RAM technologies.

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This web site contains a review about LaCie Blue DVD-RAM Drive. It gives some technical specifications, as well as information as to how this drive works.

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These two pages by Hitachi are contain a lot of information about Hitachięs DVD-Ram products. The first one has links to two new DVD-RAM drives. The second page link is to Hitachięs old page about DVD-RAM and how it works. They are both good pages and will give you a better understanding about DVD-RAM and Hitachięs products.

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Panasonic is the leading producer of DVD-RAM drives. Their second-generation, 4.7-GB, single-sided and 9.4-GB, double-sided, rewritable, industry-standard drives and media provide superior performance and reliability. Fully compliant with the DVD Forum's standards, the single-sided media is capable of storing a full 2 h of MPEG2 video. Panasonic's new drives and media offer unprecedented media interchangeability and seven times the capacity of CD-R and CD-RW—all for less than $.005/MB. Offered with both SCSI and ATAPI interfaces, the drive reads industry-standard DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-R, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, CD-DA, Photo CD, and Video CD media. The random-access, drag-and-drop storage media provides in excess of 100,000 write/rewrite cycles and data life in excess of 30 years.

This page by Panasonic contains links to different pages that explains about DVD-RAM drives and how they work. It is put together well, and as you can see from the text above, they lean towards their own product.

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If you are wondering about DVD+RW drives, this is the place were you could find out more about them. This web site has everything that you might need to know about DVD+RW. It has a great page that explains all the technical stuff about DVD+RW.

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