Nope. Might (okay, definitely) have had something to do with the fact that one of the characters was going around, detonating bombs around skyscrapers. So CN skipped it the first time around (too close to 9/11).
Hmmm...NES came out in 1985, in the US. I'm trying to remember a PC in 1970-1975 (what was available wasn't really considered a PC, especially if you are referring to the IBM compatible PC types that the sheeple use now). What PC are we talking about here?
Not all CD drives are set up to read audio CDs anywhere near the data read (advertised) speed.
A lot of burners are much better at reading audio CDs (they were designed to handle audio correctly in the hardware).
If you read the article, the review shows the audio CD reading performance (started at 23.74x and got to 52.03x at the end. Avg was 39.60 for a 74 minute CD). So it looks like it can read audio CDs just as fast as it reads data ones (the data CD read test has slightly different numbers, because they used a CD that wasn't completely full).
They're not. Notice, first, that the only companies with 56x CD-ROM readers are the crappy ones. Besides, everyone is moving into the DVD drive market.
52x is probably the highest you will see in a CD-RW drive.
The main reason why they don't specify anything for writing is because the amount of time spent writing is fairly short. The CD-R is only going to be spun at 48x speeds for a short time. However, reading a CD could continue forever (if you're playing/reading a CD over and over again).
The crappier CD-Rs should hold up under that stress. Now, if you crack that CD-R, then, maybe it'll explode (I don't think you want to crack your CD-R and then burn it--you might have some reading problems with that CD).
#1 Most of the music for starters. They need to make room for the compressed audio and DRM software. The article says these disks have 2 to 4 songs. A browse through my CD collection comes up with 8 to 19 songs per CD. That's removing 4 to 15 songs per disk.
A minor quibble here--the article states that these CDs are CD Singles--they normally only have 2-4 songs (2 songs and sometimes 2 off vocal/karaoke tracks). So there is no music being left off (these aren't full albums).
Hopefully this scheme will die before it reaches the US (this is SME--the Japanese arm). Actually, since I buy a lot of Japanese CDs, hopefully it will die quickly in Japan.
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Nope. Might (okay, definitely) have had something to do with the fact that one of the characters was going around, detonating bombs around skyscrapers. So CN skipped it the first time around (too close to 9/11).
Hmmm...NES came out in 1985, in the US. I'm trying to remember a PC in 1970-1975 (what was available wasn't really considered a PC, especially if you are referring to the IBM compatible PC types that the sheeple use now). What PC are we talking about here?
Not all CD drives are set up to read audio CDs anywhere near the data read (advertised) speed.
A lot of burners are much better at reading audio CDs (they were designed to handle audio correctly in the hardware).
If you read the article, the review shows the audio CD reading performance (started at 23.74x and got to 52.03x at the end. Avg was 39.60 for a 74 minute CD). So it looks like it can read audio CDs just as fast as it reads data ones (the data CD read test has slightly different numbers, because they used a CD that wasn't completely full).
They're not. Notice, first, that the only companies with 56x CD-ROM readers are the crappy ones. Besides, everyone is moving into the DVD drive market.
52x is probably the highest you will see in a CD-RW drive.
The main reason why they don't specify anything for writing is because the amount of time spent writing is fairly short. The CD-R is only going to be spun at 48x speeds for a short time. However, reading a CD could continue forever (if you're playing/reading a CD over and over again).
The crappier CD-Rs should hold up under that stress. Now, if you crack that CD-R, then, maybe it'll explode (I don't think you want to crack your CD-R and then burn it--you might have some reading problems with that CD).
No, the trick is to look around and say, "Nobody saw me do it, nobody saw me do it" and quickly pick it.
#1 Most of the music for starters. They need to make room for the compressed audio and DRM software. The article says these disks have 2 to 4 songs. A browse through my CD collection comes up with 8 to 19 songs per CD. That's removing 4 to 15 songs per disk.
A minor quibble here--the article states that these CDs are CD Singles--they normally only have 2-4 songs (2 songs and sometimes 2 off vocal/karaoke tracks). So there is no music being left off (these aren't full albums).
Hopefully this scheme will die before it reaches the US (this is SME--the Japanese arm). Actually, since I buy a lot of Japanese CDs, hopefully it will die quickly in Japan.
And it would be cheaper to buy a Dreamcast and the VGA converter box than a GD-ROM drive for your PC (assuming you can find one).