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1. Comment - After an 11-year holdout, Iomega agrees to a buyout

   (Apr 10, 2008 - 9:09 AM)

   Another problem was the IOMEGA's next version of the Zip drive, the Jazz drive, was incompatible with Zip disks. Since they could not leverage their customers' investment in Zip-based technology their customers could choose other solutions with no impact on their part, and CD-R, although smaller, was compatible with CD technology. One of the reasons DVDs have gained popularity (to the point of replacing CDs in many applications, such as software distribution and data backup) was that a DVD drive is compatible with CDs, so replacing a CD drive with a DVD drive does not inconvenience the customer; likewise, replacing a CD burner with a DVD burner does not remove any of the end-user's abilities. Of course, DVD-R is incompatible with DVD+R, but that is cross-compatibility, not backward compatibility.