Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!apple!farrier
From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIGS and CD/ROM
Message-ID: <1035@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 89 18:37:56 GMT
References: <8903230126.aa10495@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <11453@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <11453@louie.udel.EDU> wack@udel.EDU (Andrew Wack) writes:
>Depends on what company you go to...I've been in the process of getting a
>CD (music) pressed and the best deal I found was $1600 for 1000 discs
>complete.  This includes mastering, pressing, jewel boxes, printing the
>label on the disc, and inserting user supplied booklet and back cover.
>This price is from Phillips Dupont Optical.  I think it breaks down into
>about $600 for mastering and then $1.00 per CD.
>

   I would assume that pressing an Audio CD would be lest costly than
   pressing a CD-ROM, because the error correction on an Audio CD will
   allow for errors in the data, while CD-ROM data must be exact (not one
   bit can be different).  On an Audio CD if there is an error then the
   hardware retrieving the audio data will kludge the sound with the last
   sound data played, and the result is not (usually) apparent to the 
   listener.  However, this can't be done on a CD-ROM for obvious reasons.


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