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The end of 120 min CDs...
Posted by Robin
Posted on 12/10/01 20:01
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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:

like so much in our time also DS under license are manufactured. Even if one finds the small disks in each corner of this world in horrenden masses and is bent to therefore regard it as common property/knowledge then each manufacturer must exhaust commercially pressed CD or a D-CBlank licenses nevertheless. Or in other words: At each individual CD in this world the inventor that earns CD, Philips, also. And not only: With the help of the specifications specified by the enterprise it can extract the license at any time from manufacturers, if these move outside of the standards.

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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Like I said before. They are way too late to put this new type of CD out.
Are these 120 minute CD's the same as Sony's DD-CD?
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.
I have to start using spell check before I post :4

Damn. That sounded like broken English.
Well, one thing is sure: bablefish sucks! :4
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