Thread: Kenwood Fifty Two True compact disk-ROM

The compact disk-ROM has turn slightly of a commodity in this generation of multimedia computing. Drives continue to acquire quicker and quicker, and it is become growingly hard for producers to differentiate their products in the marketplace.


Now, we see CD-ROMS selling for as little as later mail-in rebate, CD-ROMs at 40x, 50x, drives with "true velocity" and "max velocity," and still thoughtful computing acronyms such as CLV and CAV. Rather frankly, there was small fresh technology for advancing the CD-ROM, and with DVD-ROM dropping drastically in cost, the compact disc looked to be a dying breed.




Insert Kenwood and Zen Research. Touting an innovational fresh approach to reading CDs, Kenwood's latest 52x "TrueX" CD-ROM is creating few so bold claims - "quickest CD-ROM drive on earth" standing out in our minds. What is so fresh about this technology, and does it live up to its own hype?


This is where it acquires a small confusing. "True-speed" CD-ROMs read information at Constant Linear Velocity, or CLV. These drives will alter the velocity of the disc based on where the read-head is functioning. Require the center of the disc, where it spins the slowest, the motor will velocity up to raise the information read rate. Near the outer edge, where the disc spins quicker, the drive will slow down the rotation rate to keep the information transfer steady.


CLV drives remain more fact to their claims of "10x or 16x" than CAV drives, but in common they tend to be available just at slower velocities, since it is more difficult to dynamically vary the rotation rate of the disc in relation to the place of the read head's laser.