At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level >could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard CD's >can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room on >the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a more intelligent coding of >disc addresses... Breaking compatibility wouldn't be too useful, but it
>sure would be fun. And think of the ulcers you would cause the TLAs! Assuming they got your disks and not your custom drive... >Now you simply can't do it. There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to allow or export this flexibility. Since very few customers are sick enough :-) to want to invent their own incompatible formats it simply isn't worth their development-engineering time or end-product resources (eg gates) in such a commodity product.