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- From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM recorders -> LaserVision recorders?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35:52 GMT
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- Per-Erik Nordbo (pererik@cmi.no) wrote:
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- > Is the CD-ROM recorder technology being adapted to LaserVision players?
-
- It already has been. Optical Disc Corp. has been offering LV write-once
- services for several years. Their media appears to be ablative dye-polymer,
- like CD-WORM. The service is about $300 per side, in CAV or CLV, but does
- not yet provide digital sound (analog only).
-
- There are about a dozen sites in the US that offer ODC media services,
- and the lack of hardware advertising by ODC leads me to suspect that the
- drives are very expensive. If the media isn't pre-grooved like CD-WORM,
- the drive would need to be massive in order to prevent local structural
- vibrations from causing the write beam from wandering.
-
- Regards, Hewlett-Packard
- Bob Niland Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Rd.
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