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With CD-RW drive sales soaring and DVD-ROM drives continuing to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, manufacturers are pinning their hopes on CD-RW/DVD-ROMcombination drives to boost the latter products acceptance.
The combination drive now being shipped by Toshiba is just the first in what promises to be a flood of such hybrid drives, said industry watchers. DVD-ROM drive sales and software development have languished because consumers are not willing to purchase DVD-ROM drives until software is available and software publishers will not spend money developing titles until there is a large installed base of DVD-ROM drives.
"This is definitely going to be a trend;' said Scott Elrich, TEAC's marketing and product development manager. "Rewritable is hot right now, and the consumer is ready for...