YAMAHA INTRODUCES HIGH PERFORMANCE EXTERNAL FIREWIRE™ 8X CD-RW RECORDER

BUENA PARK, CA—Yamaha Corporation of America introduces the CRW8824FXZ external CD-RW ReWritable CD recorder with IEEE 1394 FireWire™ Interface. The increasingly popular 1394 standard has a broad bandwidth and is quickly becoming the ideal choice for bi-directional transfer of large amounts of digital audio and video data between electronic devices including computer peripherals.

CRW8824 series CD-RW with FireWire™.

Designed as part of a new generation of high speed CD recorders from Yamaha, this portable unit is the world's first external recorder to rewrite CD-RW discs at 8x speed, doubling the current standard of 4x and cutting the required time to rewrite a CD-RW disc in half. In addition, the CRW8824FXZ allows users to rip audio CDs at 24x—up to three times faster than conventional CD-RW recorders currently in the marketplace. Ripping is the process of converting CD music tracks to WAV and MP3 files for creating music CDs on a PC.

With the FireWire™ interface, there is no need to convert digital data into analog for better signal integrity. The CD-RW drive can be added to and removed from a system without powering down while the bus is still active. And, unlike the legacy serial interface, FireWire™ supports free-form daisy chaining and branching for peer-to-peer implementations, allowing any two devices in the chain to transfer data to each other. FireWire™ also supports a tree (parallel) connection of devices. With its small, thin serial cable, the unit replaces bulky, expensive interface cables required for SCSI or parallel connections.

The CRW8824FXZ is designed for both IBM PC Compatible and Macintosh platforms. The external unit can be easily attached and detached and may also be used with several computers in a work environment without installation difficulties.

"FireWire™ interface—at 400 Mbps—is up to 10x faster than SCSI and 20x faster than E-IDE," states Allen H. Gharapetian, Product and Marketing Manager, Consumer Products Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. "The CRW8824FXZ is a reliable, user-friendly drive with no complicated set-ups which allows it to rewrite CD-RW discs at an incredibly fast 8x speed.

" The unit features a large 4 MB buffer memory, writes and rewrites on CD-R discs at a top speed of 8x (writing a 650 MB CD in 9 minutes) and reads CDs at a maximum rate of 24x. It also benefits from Yamaha's exclusive PurePhase™ Laser System (Pat. Pending), which eliminates glare and reflections created on the surface of the disc while burning a CD.

The CRW8824FXZ uses high performance 8x CD-R and CD-RW media for optimum recording. While blank 8x high performance CD-R discs are widely available in the marketplace, Yamaha and other leading manufacturers have introduced a new breed of 8x rewritable media, capable of reliable 8x rewriting at a cost only slightly higher than quality 4x certified CD-RW media.

The external CRW8824FXZ joins the internal format ATAPI (E-IDE) CRW8824EZ and Ultra SCSI CRW8824SZ, and the external Ultra SCSI CRW8824SXZ as the fourth product in Yamaha's new family of CRW8824 CD-RW Recorders.

The CRW8824FXZ CD-RW recorder is available to resellers through a variety of major computer distributors, and to consumers through mail order catalogs, Internet resellers and major computer retailers. In the United States, the retail version is available directly from and only through Yamaha's Consumer Products Division and includes a software bundle which features Adaptec class leading Easy CD Creator™, Direct CD™ and Toast™, AdobeÕs ActiveShare™, PageMill™, Photo Deluxe Business Edition™, MusicMatch™ JukeBox™, plus the Neato™ CD Labeler Kit.

For product and sales information, contact Yamaha Corporation of America, Consumer Products Division, 6600 Orangethorpe Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90620; http://www.yamaha.com; telephone (714) 522-9011; fax (714) 228-3913. Press contact: Giles Communications LLC, telephone (914) 422-3800, x132.

 

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