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- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD
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- Date: 02 Jan 93 04:04:02
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- > Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- > From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- > Message-ID: <C043q8.8pC@news.iastate.edu>
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- >
- > 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.
-
- DAT is a totaly incompatible system. You are "thinking" (and I use that
- term lightly) of Philips' DCC. While an interesting idea, I dont think it
- will become all that popular - it might have if it came out a few years
- ago. But I think the recordable optical disk machines are going to win,
- especialy since the price difference is nil - they cost about the same.
-
- > >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.
-
- WRONG!!! They are here now, in units priced comparably to other systems
- (DAT and DCC) (about $500 for a PORTABLE). And they can re-record over a
- million times on a disk - hardly "very limited". These things could, and I
- believe will eventualy, kill the cassette. They probably wont kill CD's,
- because CD's will continue to be cheaper to manufacture (both disks and
- players).
-
- If Commodore wanted to be really visionary, they'd toss the CD-ROM entirely
- and go with the Sony 2.5" MiniDisk drive.
-
- > Even after read-write CDs do finally arrive, the manufacturing costs of
-
- They are already here.
-
- > 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
-
- I think Audio CD's will persist for this reason, but CD-ROM will quickly
- die because it just doesn't have the market mass that Audio CD already has.
- CD-ROM is still a developing thing.
-
- > 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
-
- Well the Sony MiniDisk is already out. I dont know if it has this kind of
- circuitry in it.
-
- > for CD-ROMs. If so, CD-ROMs would continue to be very
- > attractive distribution
- > medium for software publishers.
- >
- > -!-
- > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > -!------------------------------------------------
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