One of the biggest areas of interest in CD jukeboxes is packet writing.
Packet writing allows a CD-R to be treated just as if it was another hard drive.
Packet writing has been available on standalone drives and single drives on a network. But the real breakthrough is applying this technology to jukeboxes on a network. Gary Brach of Smart Storage says his company will be introducing packet writing for jukeboxes in the first quarter of 1998. Many believe that packet writing will delay the widespread use of DVD-RW for some time, particularly when DVD is still wrestling with the standards issue. Steve Goodfellow is principle of Access Systems, Inc., an independent consultant in Knowledge Management and technology assessment.