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>>isn't the requirement to read standard formats a standard? I'm not questioning the acknowledged expert here; if you say it isn't a standard, I'll believe it, but I'll be durned if I'll understand it! Yes, the requirement to read standards is a standard, but there are many ways to implement the reading of a standard. If this were not so, we would not have multiple speed drives, multisession drives that only read XA sessions, or drives that refuse to read some discs while they easily read others. We would similarly not have CD recorders that implemented some, but not all, features and modes of recording in the Orange Book. There would not have been a _three-hour_ (spare me!) session at REPLItech devoted to the discussion of how non-standardized CD testing equipment is, based on the drives they use. It's called a free market, I believe.<g> If you can make a CD-ROM drive that will comply with the the standard well enough to read 60% of discs, you can market it and sell it, and let the buyer beware.