The end of 120 min CDs...
Already months ago we reported about 120min CDs. Today 'HOMOPAARD' used our newssubmit to tell us these CDs are history. The creator of these discs had only just announced these discs during the CeBit 2001. A translation using bablefish from disc4you:
This fate overtook now also the D-CBlanks announced by Disc4You still during the CeBIT 2001 with 120 minutes play time. These were the result of a global exhaustion in the specifications to CD laid down tolerances, which actually Lead out apart from the use for area intended and a close putting of the tracks above all a reduction that of pit and country designated, in order to double the capacity of a blank on approximately 1.3 GB, but nothing the despite at license-legal difficulties to fail should. |
Sorry for the bad translation but I think you all understand the point. 120 min CDs are history.
Source: disc4you
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Posted by Juice on Saturday 13 October 2001 05:29
Like I said before. They are way too late to put this new type of CD out.


Posted by Clong on Saturday 13 October 2001 09:38
Are these 120 minute CD's the same as Sony's DD-CD?


Posted by Juice on Saturday 13 October 2001 12:57
I don't think so. It was a new format the came out with a few months ago. they made the gaps closer together on the cd and sqeezed 1.2 gigs of data on it. The only and main problem is the only they're CD-Reader could read it. No ordinary cd-rom or cd recorder good use the disc. So it got shit canned because I don't think anyone is going to buy a new CD-Rom and recorder just to use they're 120min cdr's and not be able to share the data on the cd with another PC with an normal cd-rom.
If this would have hit the shits before DVD-R then maybe it would have catched everyone attention.
If this would have hit the shits before DVD-R then maybe it would have catched everyone attention.


Posted by Juice on Saturday 13 October 2001 12:59
I have to start using spell check before I post :4
Damn. That sounded like broken English.
Damn. That sounded like broken English.

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