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From: haener@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Drives
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.195708.1665@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 22 Jun 91 18:57:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun22.144502.17475@umbc3.umbc.edu>, brian@umbc4.umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie) writes:
> In article <1991Jun22.084101.4019@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> ppham@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( ) writes:
>>Why should we settle for CD-ROM ? read-write Optical Disks are getting smaller
>>cheaper, & much faster then CD-ROM. need I say more ? 
>>
> 
> YES! Please say more.  I have found read-write Optical Disks to be neither:
> 
> 	1. cheaper than CD-ROM (in either drive or media cost)
> 
> 	2. smaller
> 
Last week Sony announced a new CD Player/Recorder. It is based on magneto-
optical technology, and uses 2.5in cartridges. Each cartridge will contain
about the same amount of music as a connventional CD, however in a compressed
format. Mass production starts in 1992.
This might be the kind of read-write Optical disk we all are waiting for:
it will be 
	1. cheap (as it is intended to compete with DAT)
	2. smaller (I saw a picture of the Recorder - it is hardly
	   larger than the cartridge)
Greetings
Patrick

P. Haener
Theoretische Physik
Klingelbergstr. 82
CH-4056 Basel
Switzerland