[Roger Thorpe]

Roger Thorpe wrote:

Derrick Fawsitt wrote:

In message , AZ
Nomad writes

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:47:27 +0100, Derrick Fawsitt
wrote:


Where can I get Audio Blank Disks in the UK for a reasonable price?


at a retail store or mail order.


All my thanks to you both for the information, I have posted this
question on another NG and they are insisting I can use ordinary disks
as there is "no difference" except that its a ruse to make more money,
how do I answer them.
I posted this reply myself:-
"
I have bought a Yamaha CDR-HD1500 Recorder which only accepts "Audio"
disks. I find it a wonderful machine for recording music from all
sources and it holds up to four hundred disks at any one time having a
160 gigabyte hard drive. The only problem is it won't accept any CDR
blanks other than Audio. If you insert anything else it says it is not
an Audio disk".

This is correct. If they insist then you could also tell them that this
restriction to "audio" CD-R comes as a result of pressure from the music
publishing industry. A levy from the sale of the discs goes to the
performing Rights Society. This is all based on the assumption that
consumer CD writers will be used to copy commercial material.
Professional equipment and computer writers don't have this restriction.
Your machine recognises that the disc is of the audio kind by, as I
understand it a wiggle in the guide track on the disc.
There's another restriction imposed by the publishers that, in effect
allows you to make a digital copy of a disc, but no further digital
generations from that copy.
This all seems, to me at least, to be perfectly reasonable although I do
worry that at some point the audio type of disc might become another
type of extinct media.

Oh, and I forgot to say that the larger Currys sell 10 JVC discs
(CDRA80) for £6.99

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Roger Thorpe

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