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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!peter
- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:42:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <C05JFE.BG3@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Dec29.221442.7137@pro-freedom.cts.com> <C03vrC.79J@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec31.064025.18208@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.064025.18208@midway.uchicago.edu> sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > >Read-write mini-CDs hit the market this year. They're going to destroy
- > >casettes.
- > Well, yeah, since the price of the players is sooooo cheap :)
-
- Not now, but in 3-5 years. The price of players will fall as production
- ramps up, and they hold more data than tapes, are random access, sound
- better, and are immune to wow.
-
- > >Read-write full-size CDs will show up pretty soon. They will be compatible with
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > They do exist in labs in Chicago :)
-
- And will be in stores by the end of the decade, I suspect. The technology is
- basically worked out (it's just a larger version of the mini-CD, and those
- are O($1000) or less) and releasing them is a matter of marketing.
-
- > >read-only CDs (the players will play conventional CDs, but the read-write
- > >CDs probably won't play in conventional players).
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > With the estimated cost of these things in the thousands,
-
- Hundreds. Seriously... there's nothing in them that doesn't exist in current
- systems. They could be available now at effectively the same cost as the
- mini-CDs (the only extras they would need would be a larger physical disk
- compartment and head mechanics... already available in $100 units. The
- electronics are the same).
-
- > the incompatibility
- > of the recorded CD's,
-
- The pre-recorded CDs would be exactly the same as they are now. It's only
- the home-recorded CDs that would not play in existing CD players.
-
- > and the price of the medium, don't you think that
- > future is far off?
-
- Hardly. It's all a matter of marketing decisions made in Japan. There are
- no technical or price barriers to be overcome.
-
- > For the masses, are they really going to here a difference
- > between cheap DCC/MiniDiscs and expensive (not to mention huge)
- > recordable 5.25" CD's?
-
- DCC and DAT won't compete with Mini-CD. They have all the mechanical
- disadvantages of tape, and no advantages over Mini-CD.
-
- Audiophiles won't like Mini-CD since it compresses the data. After the
- electronics have gotten cheap enough, it'll be time to start shipping
- the writable CDs.
-
- I suspect that players that can read/write Mini-CDs and play CDs (or CD
- ROMS for the computer types) will probably come first.
-
- > Well, then so is chemotherapy. But it is the best we have at a price
- > we can afford :(
-
- Well, sure. For the next decade CD-ROM players are perfectly valid. I'm
- just commenting on the folks who are saying they're "the wave of the future".
- They're not... they're the wave of the present.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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