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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
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- References: <1hqcs4INN4tb@pith.uoregon.edu> <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:06:07 GMT
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- In article <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >Read-write mini-CDs hit the market this year. They're going to destroy
- >casettes.
-
- I doubt it. Cassettes recently got a reguvenation, from new DAT drives that
- can store digitally on ordinary cassettes, and play old analog-written
- cassettes. This is highly attractive to people who have lots of old cassettes
- and want to still be able to use them.
-
- >Read-write full-size CDs will show up pretty soon. They will be compatible with
- >read-only CDs (the players will play conventional CDs, but the read-write
- >CDs probably won't play in conventional players).
-
- Read-write CDs have been promised for some time. They are here already,
- but only in very-expensive units that can only erase and re-write a CD a
- very limited number of times, and only to special CDs.
- >
- >Say bye-bye to your steam-powered horseless carriage. CD-ROM is a transition
- >technology.
-
- Even after read-write CDs do finally arrive, the manufacturing costs of
- such CDs will likely be higher than for CD-ROMs. So I expect CD-ROMs to stick
- around for a long while even after read-write CDs are available, especially if
- all read-write CD drives are rigged so that they cannot be used to copy
- CD-ROMs. The audio industry will almost certainly insist on circuitry to
- prevent read-write CD drives from copying audio CDs, and the software
- publishing industry may get on the bandwagon by insisting on similar circuitry
- for CD-ROMs. If so, CD-ROMs would continue to be very attractive distribution
- medium for software publishers.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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