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Yamaha CD-RW Drive Writes Images In Substrate
johnny5 writes: "Yamaha has recently demonstrated a new CD-RW drive that can write images into the unused space on a CD-R disc after the data track is written. The technology, called DiscT@2(TM), is due out in Japan in July. The images print on to the CD at approximately 250dpi, making graphics as well as text possible. More info can be found at Yamaha's CD-RW site (in English) as well as at Akiba PC Hotline (in Japanese, with better pictures. Babelfish for suitably akward translation). No word on a timeframe for U.S. availability"
No more losing my WaReZ cd keys!
- tristan
How about burning in something like 'Fuck you RIAA' onto every CD-R. That'd make them happy.
So not only can we make pirated CD's, we can now put copy protected images on them as well... you probably can't see it, but I'm doing a little dance for joy over here, knowing that I can piss off the RIAA even more
Next step, incorporating this wonderful gadget into your fridge/freezer/1970's jukebox
what will they think of next
my last sig was too controversial... now, a new and improved useless sig!
What's up with the girl on the left side of this picture, is she a new digital booth-girl they're demoing? Full digital!! Currently available with only very low resolutions, but check out the framerate!!
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
I like this text from the product info page:
Yea! Yippee! Those floppies sure are quick! And with the amount of data loss I've seen, those floppies are easy, too! Someone should sit down with their marketing people and show them that most of us probably wouldn't interpret that sentence as a compliment to their product.
I was doing that 10 years ago with optical cards.
Whoopee-do - I was doing it twenty years ago with paper and pen - after I'd finished my school work, I'd draw hanged men, penis, boobs and that girl lay back with her legs spread open - beat THAT!
Heh, I thought it was :)
Disc, Tea at 2:00
But yours makes more sense.
Look! You can make your own front side labels on your computer!
I know becuase I did a lot of research on this. I went to Best Buy and talked to their knowledgable staff and they told me this was the thing we needed. And they said it was "Sweet" so I had to get it. They also told be I should buy the extended warranty contract, so of course I did- you never know when some "new technology" is going to break and you won't be able to fix it.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
So, it means that now I can have a CD full of pr0n and still squeeze one more picture in by printing it in the media. Cool! :)
You want a shark with a frickin' laser beam to burn your CDs?
How large is the drive bay in your PC?
Obligatory complaint: why, this is barely news at all; a very similar story was reported in Slashdot just a few decades ago, in 1961.
The PDP-1 used eight-channel punched paper tape as the predominant storage medium, punching at a speedy 60 characters per second and reading at an ungodly-fast 200 characters per second.
On program tapes, prior to the start of the actual binary program data, the assembler would punch a human-readable label in which the title was spelled out in human-readable format in the block letters made out of patterns of holes. IIRC a 5x7 matrix, a little ugly because a horizontal line of little feed holes ran through the center of the character which meant that not only did the characters look "overstruck," but the spacing between rows 3 and 4 was a little wider than the spacing between other rows.
I wonder what the earliest use of "kludging directly human-readable data into a medium that was intended only to be machine-readable?"
I seem to recall that IBM card decks had a couple of preamble cards in which the punches spelled out a code number in block letters.
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