Labels:text | screenshot | newspaper | book OCR: "The ISO 9660 stand- Another CD company, Asia-CD, sources CDs ard uses the lowest com- that covers a wide range of subjects, from North SPECIAL REPORT mon denominator of all plat- America, Europe and Asia. forms so it's limited, for instance, Jay Henderson, general manger of Asia-CD, to DOS eight-character filenames," Banquer says. says the business sector is small but has a tre- Optical Media is a similar operation in Hong mendous future, especially in the area of on-line Kong set up by Terence Wong. help. "In the old days, you had lots of manuals sit- The company offers a bureau-type CD produc- ting on the bookshelf," he says. "Now, on a multi- tion service and acts as an agent for CD writers media computer, whenever you need help, a little and OMI software. It also provides complete multi- man in a tuxedo trots out and says 'Let me help media solutions, and has produced several training YOU' " and enquiry systems. Hardware costs are also coming down. "You can get a CD player for around US$200, but you have to be careful with the cheap ones," he says. "Qual- ity does matter. You're probably better off paying US$300 for a good player." A new genera- tion of CD play- ers, called double drives, is now entering the mar- ket, providing much faster seek times and data transfer rates.
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