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Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores
CNETNate writes "More details about Sony's new Blu-spec CD format — standard CDs authored using Blu-ray's blue diode technology — are beginning to emerge, with commercial releases beginning to hit Amazon. Blu-spec CDs are compatible with existing CD players but have been mastered with higher levels of accuracy by using the same technology used to author Blu-ray discs, with the intention of eliminating reading errors that occur as a result of being authored with traditional red laser technology. Sony has also launched an official (Japanese) site for Blu-spec CDs."
I think the more important thing that every is missing here is that Steve Guttenberg seems to have found employment again!
This guy's the limit!
my bits will be much higher fidelity than other peoples! my zeros will be round and full and my ones will be straight and clean!
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You can use high intensity laser diodes in engines instead of spark plugs. Sure, it's more expensive and doesn't have any benefit, but it's NEWER!
It's been a long time.
No, no, no. You use high intensity laser diodes because the are SHINIER. Hmmpf.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
And make sure you follow your $500 Ethernet cable's directional markings to allow for optimal signal transfer!
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
RTFA? Accurate Summary? You must be n- *looks at uid* uh, nevermind. :-P
I usually just use rubber standoffs to dampen the vibrations caused by all the 1's going through.
I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
Of course blue lasers are better to author CD's. Want proof of the superiority of blue?
GI Joe v. Cobra: Good guys have blue lasers
Jedi v. Sith: Good guys have blue light sabers and blue lasers, the bad guys have red
Smurfs v. Gargmel: Good guys are blue, bad guy has a reddish cat.
I rest my case.
CDs bought in the store are made with lasers: The glass master is made with a laser. And if improvements to accuracy are to be made by changing the wavelength, I'd say it would say that it would be at the glass master stage where there would be the most effect.
Further, TFA (which you neglected to read) talks about releasing some 60 titles using this newish process. It's obviously not all about home recording.
And mastering houses aren't concerned with speed. They're deep into the funky voodoo of slow, methodical, and reliable. The better ones are almost certainly still burning with carefully-maintained 8x Yamaha and Plextor SCSI drives, and probably even then at rates no greater than 2x or 4x, on carefully-chosen media.
And even if it were: Faster burns, lower error rate? Jesus, man. We'd be burning them faster for years now, with either red or infrared lasers, if the fucking discs didn't distort from centripetal force to the point of being unusable at somewhere around 52x. And it should be obvious, but: Changing the color of the laser doesn't make the disc spin any faster.
Do you apply this much guesswork in other aspects of your daily life?
Kid-proof tablet..
It's an extra $300 for the snagless version, the clip cover is platinum, the density of the platinum gives it improved snaglessness, the clip cover is also imbued with magical snag fighting powers via Denon's proprietary shamanizing processes which will banish snags to the land of wind and ghosts!