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Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1

Posted by michael on from the spin-the-bottle dept.

Tremblay99 writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of the Yamaha CRW F1 CD burner. Not interested, you say? Well, it can burn images on the media side of a CD. While it's not the fastest burner around, it can do CD-RWs at 24x. Not bad at all."

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  1. Lovely. by BeNJ-GoS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What will i do with a printed image on the media side?!? stick my CD KEY's on it???

  2. Oh by Talisman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What will i do with a printed image on the media side?!?"

    You must be new here.

    The answer is: pr0n

    Talisman

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  3. Problems by Zara2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am very suprised that this is not mentioned in the article but this technology is almost completely useless. The Disk T@2 can only be put on a area with no data. So maybe if you are copying 100MB of mp3's to a cd you could add a bit of text but if you burn more than 300MB or so there is not enough room to put the image. Personally I can't remember the last time I burned a disk with under 500mb on it so this is really a pretty useless feature, however cool I thought it would be at first before I did some research.

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  4. nifty! by G.+W.+Bush+Junior · · Score: 4, Funny

    For all I care the burner could suck... now you can make better looking coasters!

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  5. useful for *gasp* copy protection schemes? by lophophore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can imagine some creative vendor using this technology to burn bar codes (or other non-standard data) of crypt keys on CDs. The software would then verify the key data existed and allow the protected content to be accessed.

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  6. CDR technology has a regression... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My chief problem with CDRs is that you can't use a hole punch to make the disk double-sided.

  7. Yeah yeah ... by dsb3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wake me up when I can burn data on the image side.

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  8. More than meets the eye by DeadBugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    True the image writing on the CD is mainly eye candy. But the other features that the CRW-F1 support are the reason I purchased one.

    * CAV 44X max CD-R recording
    * CAV* Ultra Speed 24X max CD-RW recording
    * CAV 44X CD reading
    * 44X max digital audio extraction
    * IDE interface
    * 8MB buffer memory
    * Safe Burn technology
    * Optimum Write Speed Control technology
    * New YDC132-V controller
    * Supports overburn
    * Supports blank CDs of 80, 90 and 99 minutes
    * Supports the DAO RAW mode
    * Mount Rainier-compatible
    * Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording technology
    * DiscT@2 technology
    * CD-RW Audio Track Edit
    * Ahead Nero Burning Rom 5.5 and InCD software
    Oh...And a cool blue LED

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