quoted 9 lines Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:20:20 -0500 (CDT)> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:20:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Oblique Hostility <kent@inav.net>
> Subject: Re: (idm) About CD recorders
>
> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, jif wrote:
>
> $1000CDN is what, about $750US? Depends on what you mean ... there
> are a
> few CDR's that are standalone (like the Marantz)
There is a problem with these stand alone HiFi systems - you need
special CD-Rs for them.The usual ones will not work. Added to the
inconvenience of finding them is the fact that they
cost about $25 each because the consortium that produced the standard
assumed that any
copying done will be infringing copyright. Therefore, a contribution
from the sale of each of
these CD-R disks goes to the copyright society (whats the name of that
thing again?).
quoted 8 lines but usually you buy a CD-R> but usually you buy a CD-R
> drive for your computer, and dump stuff to CD from the computer. You
> can get
> a bare drive (you supply mastering software and SCSI controller) for
> about $350US,
> or complete kits for about $500US on up. You need a decent computer
> with a
> relatively fast hard disk to do CD-R burning reliably.
I managed to find a Phillips CD2600 internal for around $400 - came with
good mastering
software (Corel, although I now use Easy CD 95 Pro), and a SCSI card for
the PC. My PC
is a SCSI set-up anyway so I just plugged it into my Adaptec 2940, but
people with slower
machines have told me they still use the supplied card so that there is
no bottleneck with having
the drive and the CD recorder on the same link.
quoted 1 line Blanks are about $7US (sometimes less);> Blanks are about $7US (sometimes less);
Don't pay any more than $4 ea now.
quoted 8 lines you could make one-off CD's for people> you could make one-off CD's for people
> and charge them up to $50, depending upon how much work is involved.
> There
> is other expenses involved in this -- getting a DAT recorder and
> digital I/O card
> for your computer to get the sound into it to dump to CD, good audio
> CD mastering
> software, etc.
I'd recommend the Terratec EWS64 for this. Fabulous card.
quoted 7 lines I think there's potentially a market for releasing music on a 'burn to> I think there's potentially a market for releasing music on a 'burn to
> order'
> basis. The biggest problem is that you have to have 700meg free on
> your hard
> disk at any given time to hold the CD image, and it's time consuming
> reading
> these images on and off of CD in order to burn new ones.
Is having 700Mb of free space so much of a problem any more ? You can't
seem to geta HDD less than 2.1 Gb anymore. I always read a 1x even
though my drive can do 6x.
Speed is no alternative to quality - I occasionally get a few little
clicks when I read at 6x.
quoted 5 lines You'd have to burn a lot of CD's to make very much money off the whole> You'd have to burn a lot of CD's to make very much money off the whole
> process,
> and it ties up the computer while it's burning -- don't do ANYTHING
> else while
> you burn or you'll make a coaster.
I agree, I need to find some interesting things to do with all those
that I've managed to blow up.
Andi.