Article: PANASONIC PD BREAKS ANOTHER PRICE BARRIER FOR REMOVABLE STORAGE; AGGRESSIVE NEW PRICING ALLOWS PD TO TARGET BROADER RANGE OF APPLICATIONS

SECAUCUS, N.J., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Communications and Systems Company (PCSC), a division of Matsushita Electric Corp. of America, announces that it has reduced the price of its multimedia PD disk drive from $895 to under $500. PD is a single drive that allows a user to read quad-speed CDs and, in the same drive, read from and write to a 650MB removable, rewritable optical disk.

Introduced in November 1994 at the COMDEX/Fall exhibition, PD is the world's first storage device to combine a rewritable 650MB phase change optical disk and quadspeed CD-ROM player in one dual-function drive. The internal drive model LF-1004AB has a new manufacturer's suggested ...

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