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- From: sklower@diva.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs
- Subject: Re: The cost of Philips CDD 521 CD-R and Photo-CD media
- Message-ID: <45062@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 08:25:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.130237.15655@redact.uucp>
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- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Dec23.130237.15655@redact.uucp> Mark_Ingledew@redact.uucp (Mark Ingledew) writes:
- }... As the CD-R media is (for our purposes) write once,
- }it is expensive at # 17 (pounds sterling) a disc, for 50 discs.
- }At my local Photo Shop, the cost of a Photo-CD prior to any transfers is
- }# 4.99. Assuming that Philips CD-Photo is Kodak Photo-CD, is Kodak Photo-CD
- }media the same media as used by the Philips CDD 521 ? If so, how much does
- }Photo-CD media cost and can you recommend a Supplier ? I intend to try it
- }and find out.
- I called up Kodak here in the US and got some funny partial answers.
- Kodak is not selling blank photo CD media to outside parties for any
- amount of money.
- They >>are<< willing to sell what they call ``a writeable CD-ROM''
- for $25/minimum order 50.
- I strongly suspect the only difference is the silk screening on the disk,
- and that Kodak is manufacturing the material for its own internal
- use under some oem license from either phillips, fuji, or taio-yuden,
- which won't permit it to compete in the other market.
-