A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

Conventional CD-ROM drives spin the CD faster to read the data more quickly. By using multiple lasers, Zen Research (zenresearch.com) approaches hard-drive speeds (as high as 52X). Only Compaq offers ...

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI ...

READER GERRY CHING reports that upgrading to Windows Me, Windows 2000, and some other new products can cause some of your CD-ROM drive features not to work. So this week, we’ll show why this is and ...

How would one figure out, at which speed would his/her CD ROM drive saturate the IDE bus/speed of their current system?<BR><BR>I THINK...<BR>1x = 150 KBps<BR>2x = 300 KBps etc...<BR><BR>so i would ...