From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 16:54
From Kent Williams Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 16:54
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Irene McC wrote: > 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? > They're coming out with consumer CD writers, that act basically like a tape recorder -- they record audio in real time. The more expensive blanks are supposed to be surcharged by some amount that goes back to artists whose work is being duplicated. If you check on the web there's a simple hack to the consumer machines such that you put in a 'audio' CD blank, let it spin up, then get the door open without triggering the disk change sensor, and put in a regular 'Data' blank. The restrictions on media do not apply to any computer-connected CDR burner to my knowledge.