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Presenting The CDR-ROM

Posted by chrisd on from the don't-give-aol-any-ideas dept.

nachoboy writes "Here's a cool new idea: the CDR-ROM. Allows a portion of the CD to be written and them mass produced, leaving the remaining area recordable by the user. It may sound funny, but if AOL started sending out CD's like this I might just start keeping them around."

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  1. Re:How is this different than multi-session? by Xerithane · · Score: 2, Informative

    How is this different than multi-session? The site is slashdotted and equiring minds want to know ...

    It's a disc that is divided into two segments. One segment is your standard ROM disc, that sounds like it will be stamped using normal duplication methods. The remainder of the disc is to be surfaced as a CD-R, allowing people to burn information on there.

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  2. Re:Hmm by Target+Drone · · Score: 3, Informative
    Wouldnt CDRW-ROM make more sense?

    Looking at the specsfor this thing it is "Equivalent to an appendable single session CD-R". I get the impression that this might be just a standard CDR. What's new is that the've developed some faster way to write the disc.

    The reason they don't have RW is because they cost a lot more and also because a user could accidently erase the entire disc (or important tracks). One of the selling features is to create a disc with your software and then burn a second session with a disk-id or DRM info. You wouldn't want the user to be able to delte the disk-id.

  3. More info from the manufacturer... by GoRK · · Score: 3, Informative

    More info can be found on the manufacturer's site here:

    http://www.optical-disc.com/CDR_ROM.htm

    ~GoRK