DVD-ROM Drive

September 1997 / International What's New / DVD-ROM Drive

Featuring the same physical dimensions as a standard CD-ROM drive,the GD-2000 DVD-ROM drive is designed to replace CD-ROM drives. It achieves a peak transfer rate of 2.76 MBps and reads CD-ROM and CD-R discs at a rate of 3.0 MBps. In conjunction with a suitable decoder, the GD-2000 is capable of playing back MPEG-2 compressed video and audio. It plugs into your PC through an EIDE interface and appears to the OS as a standard CD-ROM drive.
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Contact:  Hitachi Europe, Ltd., Maidenhead, U.K.

Phone:    +44 1628 585000

Fax:      +44 1628 585490

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