Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxb!rabbit From: rabbit@homxb.UUCP (P.REED) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.micro Subject: CD-ROMs Message-ID: <830@homxb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 12:37:42 EDT Article-I.D.: homxb.830 Posted: Tue Sep 24 12:37:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 04:00:53 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.audio:5872 net.micro:12081 In "Dun's Business Month", Sept. '85, there is an article entitled, Here Come Computer Compact Disks. In this article the statement is made that Sony plans to market an audio player that converts to a disk drive at the flip of a switch. Does anyone know more about Sony's plans? Is there any connection between the direct digital output of the Sony CDP-XXXES series and CD-ROMs? .P The same magazine article states that; "The compact disks themselves are cheap to make and getting cheaper. Factories stamp them out like cookies from thin sheets of partially melted plastic at a cost of less than $1 each. About 15 million disks will be produced this year, according to Mark Anderson, assistant manager of development at 3M Corp. Matsushita, for one, which currently produces 200,000 audio CDs a month, plans to eventually shift to CD-ROMs next January at a new plant in Menomonie, Wisconsin, Anderson says." It appears that manufactures are using a pricing factor of 14, is this a standard value in the audio business? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com