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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:11:56 GMT
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- In article <1hqcs4INN4tb@pith.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- > In the near-term, CD-ROM will be a solution to ever-increasing game sizes.
- >Productivity software will never lead the way in making CD-ROM widely
- >accepted - they simply don't use that much storage (example: Willy Beamish
- >CD-ROM used approximately 150MB of storage space).
- > But as for CD-ROM being THE future, that's bologna. Sheer marketing hype.
- >CD-ROM is nothing more than a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
- >CD-ROM is expensive, both in terms of development (ie: burners)
-
- CD-ROM disks don't cost much more to manufacture than audio CDs. And audio
- CDs cost next to nothing to manufacture. For example, a recent issue of an
- audio magazine includes two audio CDs "free", for the $3.95 cover price of the
- magazine.
-
- > and also to
- >the consumer (ie: $400-500 just to hear a game talk to them).
-
- CD-ROM drives are slowly coming down in price. I have seen Mac CD-ROM
- drives advertized for $400, and Mac hardware is always a bit overpriced. The
- fact that Tandy and Commodore are able to put CD-ROM drives into their VIS and
- CDTV products and still sell them for less than $700 shows that the CD-ROM
- drives must have already come down in price quite a bit.
-
- > It is not the
- >answer to all of our problems. It is a current solution to those who are
- >willing to pay for it, but take over the world it will not.
-
- I don't pay much attention to hype, contrary to what people believe. I
- just don't think 1.3 Gigabytes of potential inexpensive storage can be
- dismissed very easily. Yes, I said 1.3 Gigabytes. There is no particular
- reason why CD-ROM discs cannot be double-sided. They are single-sided now
- because the extra storage is not needed.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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