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#116621-#CD-Recordable
Message #116634
Have a look in the Incat forum (GO INCATS) for some basic information including a comparison chart of CD recorder technical specs. That should help you get started. Best, Deirdre' Straughan Incat Systems
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#116624-Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116633
Love to — I enjoy playing expert! I'm pretty deviant myself, so I should fit right in.
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#116592-Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116626
>>OK, gang, now's the time to discuss the difference between "standard" and "proprietary format" Been there, done that, took the bandages off already. I'm following this with great interest, nonetheless.
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#116562-Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116625
>>Last time I looked, Kodak wasn't prosecuting them for it. I noticed that, a couple of years ago. Seems rather strange to me, too.
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#116604-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116624
>>But nothing except market pressure can enforce a standard, and when neither the manufacturers nor the consumers completely understand the standards, that's not likely to happen. That's one reason we're now calling the column "Standards Deviations". How would you like to be a guest columnist sometime?
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#Pinnacle RCD200 conf?
Message #116622
I heve been using a Picnnacle RCD200 CDR drive for two years. I bought it from YMI. At that time, they sold it with a 386sx 25 CPU, a Rancho Technology R10AT SCSI card connecting the CDR drive and a Fujitsu M2266SA drive on which the ISO image is stored.…
#CD-Recordable
Message #116621
I want to by a recordable-CD-ROM drive,but I`m not familiar with these things.Is there anyone who can tell me something about prices,stores and several systems? Torsten Kohls 27-May-1995 18:12:05 CET Germany,CIS ID 100106,3322 Windows NavCIS PRO 1.62 (Deutsch) !N2
Seekng CD-R label source
Message #116619
Hi Gilles, we carry special CD-R labels for laser and ink! printers. You can reach me in Stuttgart at +49 (711) 6153312 or fax +49 (711) 616218. Regards, Torsten Droste totronik
#Wav2aiff
Message #116618
Hi Frederic, SOX has a batch mode which works great… Look for version 1.50. Torsten
#116561-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116610
>> True, but then you lose that additional potential platform.
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#116576-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116604
As Kathy says, Photo CD is a proprietary format, so it's up to Kodak to enforce it. I was commenting on the fact that Kodak hasn't done anything to enforce it in the case of the Corel discs (though my knowledge here may be out of date). Make of it…
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#116568-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116592
>>At least Kodak has opened up the standard for other developers. OK, gang, now's the time to discuss the difference between "standard" and "proprietary format" Kathy
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#116581-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116586
>> Yes, you are right. If you just want a disc with an ISO session and a HFS session, you can do it on a PC, but when I refer to a hybrid disc, I am referring to a single session containing all the data with two directories. By the…
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#116526-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116581
Yes, you are right. If you just want a disc with an ISO session and a HFS session, you can do it on a PC, but when I refer to a hybrid disc, I am referring to a single session containing all the data with two directories. By the way,…
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#116562-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116576
Deidre' >> Last time I looked, Kodak wasn't prosecuting them for it.
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#116561-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116568
>>As for Kodak's attempts to make money from Photo CD thus far, the less said the better…
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#116520-Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116567
Thanks for the info, sounds great! Britt
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#116553-PhotoCopy
Message #116564
Actually, Photo CD and Portfolio are not doing so badly in Europe. Kodak players are widely available here, and we've sold a fair number of packages of Photo Theatre. The Portfolio format has a lot going for it — low development cost, automatic multiplatform capability including cheap platforms, simplicity for…
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#116529-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116562
As I said, you can include it at no extra cost (maybe I didn't mention the latter point). Standards are always nice to stick to, and of course it makes sense to maximize the number of platforms your disc will run on — I see the multiplatform capability as one…
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#116554-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116561
>> This is part of the reason why you can't just record a bunch of PCD images on a CD-ROM XA disc and call it a Photo CD — it won't work like one. True, but then you lose that additional potential platform. The nice thing about Kodak Photo CD…
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Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116560
It's hard to say exactly what was happening with the CD Player. The directories/files showed up, but the system would give a file error if I tried to execute or load (these were Director movies) any of the files. It worked fine on one of my other computers as well…
#116520-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116554
>> The Kodak players are fairly "dumb,"
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#116378-#PhotoCopy
Message #116553
>> That may change things and perhaps we will have more PortfolioCD creating software on the market next year.
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#116520-#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116529
D' > You can also choose to include the CD-I viewer app so that the disc will run on the smarter CD-I player. < I think in order to create a valid PhotoCD according to the standard you HAVE to include the CD-i application as the standard requires the presence…
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#116508-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116526
Steve, it depends how you define a hybrid disc. If you define hybrid disc as a CD containing both ISO 9660 file system and HFS then WinOnCD is a tool capable of creating hybrid discs on the PC. Hybrid discs with data shared between the ISO 9660 part and the…
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#116470-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116522
Easy-CD Pro MM doesn't claim to make hybrid discs; it will let you do a physical copy of an HFS volume (including a Mac CD-ROM, for example), but that's it. We don't open the HFS files in Windows, because they would, of course, lose their resource forks. Up to now…
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#116488-#Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116521
Can you be a little more specific about what kind of problem and what kind of player? Part of the reason it's so hard for anyone to define the problems is that everyone is so vague about what they're experiencing. If you're seeing only the first session on a multisession…
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#Incat's Photo Theatre
Message #116520
Yup. You can use the same images over and over in different sequences, attaching different sound clips if you like, without actually recording the image more than once on disc — which allows you to maximize the number of images per disc. No, they all have PCs or Macs with…
#116509-CDR for Mac,PC,VAX
Message #116512
>>Well, I grew up in the Santa Clarita Valley which is 30 miles north of La La land, I went to school in San Luis Obispo, and I now live in the Bay Area, so I am working on covering the whole Bay area! Where are you from? ahhhhhh……… me,…
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#116376-#CDR for Mac,PC,VAX
Message #116509
*steve, are you from here????????????? *where then??????????????? Tracy, Well, I grew up in the Santa Clarita Valley which is 30 miles north of La La land, I went to school in San Luis Obispo, and I now live in the Bay Area, so I am working on covering the whole…
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#116424-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116508
Kenny, I do not know about any software that can create a Hybrid disc on a PC. Best Regards, Steve Styerwalt OMI
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#116470-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116503
Goerges, Thanks for clearing that up. Hope I didn't cause your mailbox to overflow. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
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#116488-Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116502
Kenny, I prefer to think of it as a wide-spread problem with CD Players instead of a wide-spread problem with CD-Rs. It's clear that CD-R is going to be around for a while so it stands to reason that the players should support the media. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
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#116484-Multisession & Incat
Message #116500
>>two different "soundtracks."
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#116434-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116489
Ok, Jerry, _that_ makes sense. I think I understand now. I _really_ appreciate everyone's help. KAC
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#116428-#Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116488
I have problems on one of my computers reading the CDRs from my Pinnacle RCD-1000. I was thinking that it might be a single vs. multisession thing, but from what I'm learning/hearing it may be a relatively wide-spread problem with CDRs KAC
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#116455-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116484
Yes, you can translate any image format into PCD using Photo Theatre. I think the older generation of players should play Portfolios — at least I can't remember ever hearing or seeing anything to the contrary. I'm working on a Portfolio of pictures of my daughter to send to all…
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#116424-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116470
I have yet to see software that can make a Hybrid disc under Windows. Easy CD Pro MM will make HFS discs but this feature is not easy to use IMHO. I don't see why the next version of software won't be able to do it. IF it is done…
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#116447-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116455
>>You get it anyhow. For a Portfolio disc you can choose to use all 5 Photo CD resolutions, or just the 3 "base" resolutions (which are all good enough for TV/monitor viewing).
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#116416-#RCD1000 NT read support?
Message #116449
It depends on the driver more than the drive. You can use the RCD 1000 as a multisession reader with Adaptec's ASPICD.SYS driver. Whether this works with NT I do not know. Suspect not. Ciao, Deirdre'
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#116382-#Really Dumb Question
Message #116445
Hi Britt, In fact is was done to spread the information on the disc to increase the efficiency of the error correction: It is easier to correct 3 slightly damaged sectors as it is to correct one really damaged sector. Sincerely Peter
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#116393-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116436
Deirdre', >>They've just done a lousy job marketing it, so the usual response when we say "It does Photo CD Portfolio" is "Huh?"
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#116423-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116434
Kenny, Wrong. An ISO9660 file _will_ show up on the Mac. If it's a _Mac_ application it _will_ run. It _will not_ look/act/and feel like a Macintosh discs however. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
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#116424-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116433
Kenny, No. At least not that I've ever heard of. The PC can't understand the Mac resource folk. It gets lost when you copy the file to the PC so it isn't even there for software to work with any longer. Now, having said that, I did hear something just…
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#116403-#Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116428
Mike, I'm convinced that the ability to read CD-R discs isn't a simple matter. My Texel _used_ to read CD-R great then quit over a period of about a week. It was repaired (replaced) with a unit that was supposed to have been checked for CD-R readability. It can read…
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#116357-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116424
So Steve is there software available that runs under windows that will allow me to create a _true_ hybrid CD? Or can I only do it by using a Mac (and appropriate software) and attaching my RCD 1000 to it? Thanks, KAC
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#116398-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116423
Thanks everyone. I think I understand, but am still a little confused about what really happens when I put a Mac executable on an iso 9660 disc. It sounds like it may or may not show up to the mac user and it may or may not run depending on…
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#RCD1000 NT read support?
Message #116416
All, I noticed a Pinnacle RCD1000 ad that emphasized the fact that the drive could be used as a general-purpose reader in addition to its writing capabilities, and it reminded me that the RCD202 was in fact *not* supported, even as a reader, under NT. Does anyone know if they've…
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