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Later this month, you can expect the first market release of DVD technology. This new technology, if successful in capturing the hearts and dollars of consumers, may revolutionize the way we store data and assimilate VCRs, audio CDs, laserdiscs and CD-ROM disks faster than the Borg in a Federation colony...
...While CD-ROM drive speeds keep increasing, the storage capacity of the disk itself has been limited to 650 megabytes for years. However, the first wave of DVD-ROM disks will be able to hold 4.7 gigabytes of data--that's more than seven times that of today's CD-ROM disks--using one side of a single-layered disk...
...with CD-ROM disks, DVD disks will first take the form of read-only devices (DVD-ROM). However, manufacturers are already working on a rewritable version of the disk (DVD-RAM) that will allow you to store and erase data from the disk just as with current floppy and hard disks. As a result, CDs would become a more attractive data backup option and there would be consolidation of multi-disk packages, such as electronic encyclopedias and phone directories...
...museum has also increased interactivity in the display by including computer information stations throughout. There are also portable CD-ROM audio guides which are connected via radio with each individual work, allowing observers to go at their own pace...
...might think that Tisdale is a snob, defending high culture against the inroads of popular culture: "In a sense the library is made more popular by the addition of Internet stations and CD-ROM games. A free showing of Independence Day would bring a big surge in attendance, too," she jabs. But in fact, she does not want to replace Danielle Steele with Virgil. Tisdale's is not an argument for Great Books; it is a plea for silence...