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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Reading CDI in an Indigo CD-ROM drive
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <32510@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:21:04 GMT
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- In <32510@adm.brl.mil> ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk (R Clement) writes:
- | A music mail-order place in the UK is advertising a "CD-I" listing 73,000
- | CDs. Is it possible to read CD-I in the standard (I hope that's what we've
- | got - our Indigo expert is on holiday) Indigo CD-Rom drive. Furthermore, is
- | the data in a CD-I readable with *reasonable* effort (e.g. a quick and dirty
- | programme to translate to normal text) or is it stored in some super-complex
- | compressed/encrypted/whatever format.
-
- I'm not familiar with just how CD-I works (I know what it is), but our
- peripherals folks tell me that the drive we ship (a Toshiba 3301B variant)
- will not read CD-I media. Sorry.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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