it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

Office equipment giant Ricoh said it will exhibit the world's first CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) drive at the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany this week. The Japanese firm's six-speed read, two-speed ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — Yamaha Corporation of America unveiled a CD-RW rewritable CD recorder with FireWire interface, powered speaker systems for PCs and CD-R blank discs during Fall RetailVision, here, ...

An industry consortium devoted to promoting rewritable and write-once DVD standards. Founded in 1997 by HP, Philips, Sony and others, it developed the DVD+RW specification as an evolution of the CD-RW ...