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Toshiba targets home movie-makers with DVD-R/RW DVD drive

By PR Connections
Johannesburg, 26 Sept 2002

CompuTrolley.com, official distributor of Toshiba optical drives, has announced the availability of the Toshiba SD-R5002 DVDR/RW, a quality optical disk drive, bundled with everything needed to create a comprehensive and effective home movie-making kit.

The SD-R5002 is one of the fastest combination rewriteable DVD drives available on the market, able to read DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R and DVD-RW as well as CDs. It offers writing speeds of 16x for CD-R, 10x for high-speed CD-RW and 2x for DVD-R, with the additional capability of writing to regular CD-RW and DVD-RW disks.

Toshiba`s DVD optical drives are developed using the DVD-standard, which enables greater performance characteristics to be incorporated into product designs, comments Gary Naidoo, national product manager at CompuTrolley.com.

"The SD-R5002 is Toshiba`s first DVD-R/RW drive and has a half-height form factor and supports the ATAPI interface. The average random seek time is 120ms and 105ms for DVD and CD respectively and it also features a 2MB buffer capacity and buffer underrun protection. This is the sort of performance demanded by the local market today."

Each SD-R5002 retail kit contains the drive itself, an Intervideo WinDVD, DVD Playback software, VOB Instant CD/DVD Writer software, Pinnacle Studio Version 8 SE video editing software, media accessories and all necessary cables and leads.

Adds Naidoo: "The combination of Toshiba`s quality design and engineering, along with its DVD writing and editing software are what brands this as the most comprehensive and effective home movie-making kit on the market."

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Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) leads the market in developing, designing and manufacturing DVD-R/RW, DVD-ROM and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination optical disk drives and 1.8ins and 2.5ins hard disk drives. SDD markets high quality peripherals to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), value-added resellers (VARs), value-added dealers (VADs), system integrators and distributors throughout Europe. It also provides end-users with innovative portable storage devices. Since 2001, the SDD has been influential in the retail market with the introduction of its retail kits.

Inherent in the company`s philosophy and product lines is a sincere commitment to high-quality engineering and manufacturing, qualities that have been instrumental in establishing Toshiba products as worldwide leaders.

Editorial contacts

Adriaan du Plessis
PR Connections
(011) 885 3141
computrolley@pr.co.za
Gary Naidoo
CompuTrolley.com
(021) 425 1500
gary@computrolley.com