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>"I have an opportunity to pick up the Philips CM205/10 Internal Drive cheaply but cannot establish drive transfer speed or whether capable of reading single or multi-session photo CD's. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular drive, please." I don't know what the "/10" means, but according to the…
>"Looking for the driver called DD250.sys. It got deleted from my machine and i don't have a backup. Dont know how to identify the cd rom. It came as a package deal." I've just uploaded a file CM205.EXE to the Drivers/Hardware library section. This contains DD250.SYS. This is a device…
Hi Bernard, Although I work for Philips, I don't work on CD-ROM or multimedia – I just upload the CDROMF.ZIP file as I think it's a useful file and I have easy access to the USENET at work. Not working on CD-ROM, I don't know what the latest revision of…
You're welcome Albert. Mark
#CDROMF.ZIP uploaded
Message #48182
The latest CDROMF.ZIP is now available from Library 1. From the Abstract: Frequently Asked Questions file on CDROMs dated 26th April 1993. Uploaded from the USENET alt.cd-rom newsgroup with the permission of the author Robert A Bruce. This file replaces the previous file containing the FAQ of 25th Jan 1993…
A "CD-I Ready" disc can be played on a standard music CD player, but contains extra information to be played on a CD-I player (eg. to show you the words or artist info on the TV screen in an interactive way). With your Toshiba drive you will just be able…
Toshiba must have meant that the 3401 is CDROM-XA or PHOTOCD compatible ? The data formats for CDROM-XA and PHOTOCD are derived from CD-I so that causes some confusion. A CD-I player however is really a computer that connects to a TV, with CD-I discs containing software for this "CD-I…
PhotoCD
Message #37061
> Ouch! That's about GBP 1 = US$ 1 … since I got my copy here in > California for about $33. > Is that typical of prices for computer products there? Yes it is very typical. Whenever I see computer hardware or software in American adverts, it usually seems…
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#PhotoCD
Message #36509
> "I too am looking for a copy of Kodak Photo Access in the UK. Let me know when you find a source. " Hi Jill & Michael, I've seen an advert in some UK computer magazines from CD Revolution Ltd advertising Philips CDD 462 PhotoCD compatible CD-ROM drives and…
Rich, I was replying to Gary Morton's question on the CD-I scene in the UK about software availablity and catalogues. Since I uploaded the CDIUK.ZIP list of UK CDI titles to this Forum I thought it was useful to point this out to him and that at least 80 consumer…
#CD-I disks available
Message #35897
> Over here in the UK CD-I is just starting. So as not to buy into > another beta max, what is the latest situation on the hardware sales > and software availability. Can any one recommend vendors for software > that supply catologues and supply to the UK? Hi…
Torsten, I'm also interested to know about your new driver for the Philips CM205 to make it read Photo-CDs. As you are getting a few requests for it, perhaps you could just put your info in a file and upload it to a Library section ? If I see others…
Martin, I'm no expert on CDROMs but from what I read in December issue of Personal Computer World the "CM 205 supports standard (High Sierra, ISO 9660) CD-ROM discs only, which means it will not handle Photo-CDs or multi-session discs." However the article says that there is an upgrade option…
Hi Harry, You probably know all this already, but if you are interested in CDI there's a MPC/CDI/CDTV section in the Multimedia Forum (GO MULTIMEDIA). The section mostly carries messages about CDI these days, so it's a good place to make contacts with CDI people. We've also just managed to…
I see the file pcdext.txt that I said I uploaded to the general library 1, has been put by the sysop in the Marketplace library 10, which is probably a better place to keep press releases. Mark
Jan, I have to confess that although I work for Philips, I do not work on multimedia or Photo CD, but I think it only fair to declare in my userid that I work for Philips since I have an obvious interest. Having said that I do work at the…
#pcdext.txt
Message #28406
There is some interest in PhotoCD in this forum so I have uploaded a file pcdext.txt to Library 1 (the multimedia section still does not allow uploads ). The file is of a January 1992 Philips press release on the extensions that Philips and Kodak added to the the Photo…