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Article: CD-ROM and competing technology: competitors such as CD-R, CD-E, MD, PD, and HD are ready to slug it out.(Brief Article)
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- Information Today
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- February 1, 1996
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It took a couple of years for CD-ROM to become a household term and a taken-for-granted component of practically every computer that ships. There are about 70 million CD-ROM drives in use today, according to industry watchers. However, other technologies and media, being developed to compete with CD-ROM, are hoping to become the preferred alternative for the storage and/or distribution of large volumes of information.
The two functions--recording data for storage by the end user and distributing stored and unerasable data--are so distinct that it would not be appropriate to gauge CD-ROM's competitors without looking first at the new incarnation of CD technology, the ...