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We heard the music from the home Hi-Fi, and we wanted to stick them in our new fangled computers. We wanted to replace our LP-ROM drives with CD-ROM's. When they now humble CD-ROM appeared on the scene it allowed us to see, hear and interact with the world by being able to listen to music at our desk's, or by being able to install interactive software such as Encyclopaedias. Plus for more mundane uses such as installing office applications, instead of feeding endless 3.5" floppy disks into the PC you could insert 1 single disk that contained all the things you needed. The men in white coats were especially pleased with themselves over this single application. As we were.

DVD-ROM's offer the next step to CD-ROMs, not only will a DVD disk hold more information, the a DVD ROM will read both CD's & DVD's. So you can have the best of both worlds. The only slight down side, that is of little concern these days is the read speed. A DVD-ROM will read up to 16 speed on a DVD and up to 48/50 speed on a CD.
And lo it came to pass that in 1979 someone possibly in a white coat holding a clip board decided that the time was right to dispense with vinyl and make something a touch more hard wearing. The said white coated people working for a coalition formed from both Philips and Sony created a digital audio disc, that we all know and love. Things then moved on a bit from there, firstly recordable CDs and then DVD's. See IconUK can even provide a bit of History to your shopping. If you'd like some more history have a look at the Bluetooth Section, there's more history to be had there.

Subcategories
DVD Writer DVD Writer DVD-RW, DVD writer, DVD burner, etc etc etc. There are a lot of names for the now humble DVD re-writer, and they all mean the same thing. A device that can read and write to both CD & DVD disks. Now this is where things can get a little tricky and complicated, mainly due to ill informed salespersons in large retail shops.
The fact is virtually all modern DVD writer will write to a variety of disks including CD-R & CD-RW, Minus DVD-R & DVD-RW, Plus DVD-R & DVD-RW, Dual Layer DVD+R DL & DVD-R DL. Some will write to DVD-RAM disks the ones we have in stock at the moment wont write DVD-RAM disks. This like everything else that has any connection to a computer will change soon.
CD ROM CD ROM We heard the music from the home Hi-Fi, and we wanted to stick them in our new fangled computers. We wanted to replace our LP-ROM drives with CD-ROM's. When they now humble CD-ROM appeared on the scene it allowed us to see, hear and interact with the world by being able to listen to music at our desk's, or by being able to install interactive software such as Encyclopaedias. Plus for more mundane uses such as installing office applications, instead of feeding endless 3.5" floppy disks into the PC you could insert 1 single disk that contained all the things you needed. The men in white coats were especially pleased with themselves over this single application. As we were.
DVD ROM DVD ROM DVD-ROMs carry the mantle further on from a CD-ROM by being able to offer backwards compatability. A DVD ROM can and will read a CD disks as well as a DVD disk. They can as a rule read virtually any type of disk, including CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD-ROM. Some of the more modern DVD-ROMs can read DVD-RAM disks, we're trying to find some of those.