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Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!scott From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: rec.audio Subject: Re: Sony's CD advertising Date: 9 Sep 1992 05:53:09 GMT Organization: The University of Westrn Australia Lines: 34 Message-ID: <18k3g5INNomp@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <zarthac.715810017@camelot> <1992Sep8.153152@trc.amoco.com> <44707@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au sklower@diva.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower) writes: >In article <1992Sep8.153152@trc.amoco.com> znpt01@trc.amoco.com (Norman P. Tracy) writes: >}The real casualty of all this is CD-R (CD Recordable).... >} you can buy it today (recoders - $5000, blank disks - $25). >}Unlike DCC or MD a CD-R can be played back in any of the millions >}of CD players in the world today. But do not hold your breath waiting for CD-R >}prices to come down due to the economies of scale. >One thing that may bring down the price of the media might be the new >``Photo CD'' system that Kodak is introducing.... digitize your photos >and put them on CD-ROM format. I saw some literature on the tech. details, >but didn't decipher whether it was the 5" or 3" format. Similarly there is likely to be an explosion (of sorts) in the personal CD-ROM burner market. CD-ROM for home PC's is taking off and it won't be long before people will be wanting to make their own CD-ROMS. A friend of mine just purchased a CD-ROM burner for his business, the good thing about this is that it can be a CD recorder too :-) Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth --> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a flat battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regard Scott.