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- From: 00gwmichelin@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM recorders -> LaserVision recorders?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.170530.13278@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:05:30 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.071501.27154@alf.uib.no> <BzzCvs.MII@fc.hp.com>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- In article <BzzCvs.MII@fc.hp.com>, rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
- > Per-Erik Nordbo (pererik@cmi.no) wrote:
- >
- >> 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.
-
- THE HARDWARE STARTS AT US$150,000.
-
- 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.
- > After 1/15: rjn@CSN.ORG or 71044.2124@CompuServe.COM Ft Collins CO 80525-9599
- >
- > This article represents only the opinion[s] of its author, and is not an
- > official or unofficial position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard
- > Company. The text is provided for informational purposes only. It is
- > supplied without warranty of any kind.
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