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- From: s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD
- Message-ID: <S37732V.93Jan3120215@lk-hp-18.hut.fi>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:02:15 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org's message of 02 Jan 93 04:04:02
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- In article <0210aa5@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I have heard that (at least here in Finland) Minidisk is going to be even
- cheaper than DCC systems. I don't know how much are empty disks or casettes
- though.
-
- > >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).
-
- And CD's have better quality because they don't use lossy compression
- methods for data as both DCC and Minidisk do.
-
- If Commodore wanted to be really visionary, they'd toss the CD-ROM entirely
- and go with the Sony 2.5" MiniDisk drive.
-
- Currently Minidisk systems use lossy compression methods but nothing
- is stopping them to release drives with no compression. This of course
- limits the amount of data possible to store on the disk. So this isn't
- possible at the moment.
-
- > 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.
-
- I doubt because copies from CD isn't technically of the same quality
- as for example CD to DAT copies are.
-
- > for CD-ROMs. If so, CD-ROMs would continue to be very
- > attractive distribution
- > medium for software publishers.
- >
-
- I agree. They are great for software publishers but I need read/write
- media.
-
- > -!-
- > | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- > -!------------------------------------------------
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