HP Pavilion 7700 HP Pavilion PC's - (English) Philips CDD-4801 CD-RW User's Ma - Page 29

01_LAYOUT_GB 22-11-2000 09:21 Pagina 23 CDRW APPENDIX Glossary of terms CD-RW (CONT.) ENGLISH THE BEST WAY TO CREATE YOUR OWN CDs - WITH RE-USABLE CD-RW. • CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) gives you the opportunity to create your own CDs, in the best and most cost-effective way. CD-RW is, in fact, the logical extension of CDRecordable (CD-R). Together, they give you the opportunity to run the media that best suits the job in hand. • CD-RW supports the recording of small packages of data, using incremental packet writing in the universal (UDF) file format. As with floppy discs, you have the option of writing a disc all at once, or building it up bit by bit - and re-using the disc later for other data. • CD-RW media can be rewritten hundreds, or even thousands of times. This means that the overall running costs, for hardware and software together, can be very economical indeed. • CD-RW will greatly extend your personal short-term storage capacity, providing space for large-volume files like Internet downloads, backups, and hard disc dumps. It is also excellent for low-quantity multimedia applications, from one-off disc testing to small-scale distribution MULTIREAD: MAKING CD-RW MEDIA COMPATIBLE WITH CDROM AND DVD-ROM. • CD-RW media reflects less laser light than the other CD media. To play all CD media, drives must be able to adapt to these different reflectivities. • For compatibility, drives need to do this in a standard way. They also need to interface and interact with their host computer systems in a standard way. 23