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>I'm sure everybody has seen the Slashdot article about the Yamaha drive
>that write images, etc in the part of a CDR/CDRW in the unused space
>that's viewable by the naked eye
>(http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/24/1227200&tid=126). I didn't
>see this in the archives, so I was wondering if there's any interest or
>development on this type of thing for "regular" CDR/CDRW drives?
>Would it be as simple as turning on the laser to burn the parts of the
>disk that you would want to appear different? Then it just needs to be
>figured out how to get everything lined up as you move toward the outside
>of the disk. (Gross simplification. I don't remember most of those angle
>formulas from math class.)
Yamaha did show the one and only drive at CeBIT and I did talk to the
developers. Is the drive really available? At CeBIT they stated that they show
it to see if there is interest.
There is must likely some image-format interface.
Jörg
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