(idm) CD-R / Audio or Data

From Irene McC
Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 06:08

On 13 Jan 99, xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote re: Re:  Re: (idm) No, I don't:

> purchase something (like a dat or cdr burner) in either a
> "proffesional" or "consumer" model, I woudl always advice getting
> the pro model, 

New problem - it now appears that certain CD-R manufacturers 
(Philips, Pioneer and TDK so far) are making two different types of 
recordable CD's - cheap ones for data (yellow book) and MUCH 
more expensive ones for audio (red book).  There is technically 
*no* difference between these two at all - except that the 
specifically marked 'audio' ones carry an embeded flag - if your 
audio recorder senses the flag, it permits you to copy.  If it fails to 
see the flag, it won't run.

Anybody have further knowledge on this?  

I
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