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#116355-3DO
Message #116413
>>So SIGCAT is that invigorating? Actually, it's been a great show so far. I hadn't been to SIGCAT before, and had always heard that it was usually small, mostly government users, but this year a whole bunch of CDROM folks are here, either as exhibitors, conferees, presenters, or just dropping…
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CDROM Capacity Confusion
Message #116404
"I've posted my question exactly 3 times as new threads in three different sections," This is considered _rude_. ". I desperately need this information no later than Monday." Then hire a consultant. Mike
#Teac55a versus our RCDs
Message #116403
" Most of the reading I've done suggest that the Teac 4x drive only has the real life peformance of a 2x drive. Since you asked, I have some Plextor 4 Plex drives that never have trouble reading CD-R discs. My older Texel 2x drive won't read them at all…
Writeable CD Roms
Message #116402
" This is because different operating systems call a different number of bits a byte" Katherine, According to the binary base 2 system, it takes 8 bit to describe a byte. How can that be different based on operating system? Mike
#116342-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116398
Kenny, Jerry knows what he's talking about here — he does lots of hybrids, but I can't remember if he's mentioned that in order to create a shared hybrid (what he refers to as "true" hybrid) you have to premaster on a Mac, and there are only a couple of…
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#116356-Really Dumb Question
Message #116394
Dear Britt, The problem you are stating is the most basic problem of Track-at-Once writing — you have to write a whole track in one smooth pass, any interruptions are fatal. One solution would be packet writing, where you write your data in much smaller chunks, smaller than the CD…
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#116354-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116393
Portfolio has been around for a couple of years, and Kodak has had the software out on the Mac for at least two years that I can remember. 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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#116380-#Really Dumb Question
Message #116382
>>4. to give me the opportunity of competing with D.L.>the CIRC encoder which will devide the content of one CD sector into blocks and interleve these blocks with blocks from two other sectors. In order to record one sector you have to write three sectors to have all information flushed…
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#116356-#Really Dumb Question
Message #116380
Britt, this is a difficult question but i try to answer it. Not all information here will be absolutely accurate but this is not because i do not want to tell you it's simply because i do not know better. Now the top ten list why CD-Recorders cannot link write…
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#PhotoCopy
Message #116378
Britt The PhotoCopy software is on the market since 1993 as a cooperation between Philips and CeQuadrat (CeQuadrat as developer of the software). The patents concerning the PhotoCD and PortfolioCD format are shared between Kodak and Philips. PhotoCopy allows to write Photo/PortfolioCDs without any limitations of use. What I think…
#CDR for Mac,PC,VAX
Message #116376
>>Ca native geography report… Santa Maria is 30 miles south of San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast. This is about 200 miles south of San Jose. steve, are you from here????????????? where then??????????????? tracey
#116356-Really Dumb Question
Message #116370
The drive can't wait "for a few spins" while recording for a variety of reasons, but there is hope. The problem can be solved entirely in software without exposing customers to these issues. My company makes a product called Spira that provides drive letter access to a CD-R drive from…
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#116304-3DO
Message #116366
> There's $1.35 difference Yes, at the manufacturing stage, $1.35 can = $6-8.00 retail. Britt, you sound like you have little experience in manufacturing and the retail trades… do you have any idea what actual manufacturing costs of some common products that you use daily are? Would you protest if…
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#116356-Really Dumb Question
Message #116358
Britt, Yes, use an Audio Visual drive and write your data to an image file before writing it to the recorder. If you do this, you should have practically a 100% success rate. This is not always necessary, but if your main concern is the cost and not time, this…
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#116342-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116357
Kenny, the problem with creating ISO 9660 discs on a PC for a Macintosh is that PCs don't understand about Macintosh resources. You should be able to make ISO discs with Apple extentions or Hybrid discs with your Pinnacle, but you will need to buy Macintosh software. Best Regards, Steve…
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#Really Dumb Question
Message #116356
I have seen, for the last couple of years, discussions about how CD-ROM recording is a tricky process. One of the basic issues that everyone knows about is the need for a fast hard drive that can get info to the recorder without interuption. Things like lots of small files,…
#116328-#3DO
Message #116355
>>One of the presenters in the session at the SIGCAT conference here today used exactly that example of what people would do with up to 7.4 GB of data space on one disc.
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#116321-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116354
>>PhotoCopy as well which makes fully licensed PhotoCD/PortfolioCD. It is available (since 1993) and was reviewed in the May issue of CD-ROM Pofessional.>Please call us at 1-800-330-MPEG if you are interested.
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Wanna make Records?
Message #116351
Interesting story Jeremy, I am glad my singing is terrible. Saves me a lot of money. Nico
#116342-Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116350
Kenny, > Wrong. A Mac will execute a Mac application from an ISO9660 disc just fine but in many cases you can't click on a file and have it open the application that created it. In many cases you also lose icons and the resource forks. In other cases you…
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Multisession & Incat
Message #116349
Peter Don't worry about where you decide to post a message regarding incat products. As long as it in either this forum or the incat forum ( GO INCATS ) the message somehow finds it way to me. I am glad to hear you at least got the multisession process…
#116284-#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116342
Thanks, Jerry, I'm sure this has come up before, but I am new to CD recordables and to CompuServe. I don't want to annoy people, but I do want to understand as well as possible what I've got myself into here. So the bottom line is that a Mac will…
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#116275-Multisession & Incat
Message #116332
Dear Peter, Usually Mike and I both monitor the Incat forum and respond to e-mail on this account — we're based in very different time zones, so this works out well. I do the rest of Incat's on-line liaison, in this forum and on the Internet — it's part of…
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#116305-#3DO
Message #116328
Britt, It has been fun. It's interesting that you mentioned the idea of using higher density CDs for putting an artist's entire works on one disc — One of the presenters in the session at the SIGCAT conference here today used exactly that example of what people would do with…
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Wanna make Records?
Message #116324
I'm not sure why this is showing up in this forum but hey Jeremy– If they had a "REAL" music laywer representing them, I think your numbers would be a little different. Just a thought—-
#116303-#Multisession & Incat
Message #116321
Britt You might be interested in the CeQuadrat software PhotoCopy as well which makes fully licensed PhotoCD/PortfolioCD. It is available (since 1993) and was reviewed in the May issue of CD-ROM Professional. Please call us at 1-800-330-MPEG if you are interested. Best regards, Monika Lutkemeier CeQuadrat
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#3DO
Message #116305
>>If you're really interested in this (and you must be, to spend so much time & bandwidth on it 😉 you ought to get the disc we'll be publishing later this year called "CD Publishing: The Seminar Disc."
#3DO
Message #116304
> Then why is a cassette tape about half the cost of a CD? >>Because a cassette can be made for about $.45, + packaging (which is typically MUCH less because there's less 4 color, only 1 piece of printed material, and typically about $.20-.50/unit, where CD packaging can cost…
#Multisession & Incat
Message #116303
>>you should see the software we have for _producing_ Photo CDs! Very sexy, and my personal favorite "child."
#Pinnacle RCD-1000 Buy?
Message #116284
Kenny, Your questions are good ones that we've addressed several times on this forum. Basically there seem to be different definitions of what a "hybrid" CD is, that is a disc that can be read on multiple systems. The most common hybrid is a Mac/PC hybrid however our company has…
80 Min. CD-R Media
Message #116283
As I said in my reply to your e-mail, it's 681,984,000 bytes but does depend on how the drive is formatted too so there isn't a simple answer. Formate with 2048 and you should be ok. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
#Multisession & Incat
Message #116275
D' Will you have a preview to download, (Photo cd production)? Also thanks for posting Mike the Message. He did say he would not be back till Tuesday. Which forum does he monitor. You know, c serve should develop a way inwhich the computer would automatically keep track of forums…
Hybrid disc Mac probs
Message #116266
Hi Kenny, An ISO9660 disc can be read by any system which supports the format. This includes just about every computer on the planet including the Mac. However, your Mac must have the ISO9660 extentions installed but once again this is the case with most Mac users. If i'm correctly…
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