Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2311 -Reply

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:14:43 -0500
>From: P3D Bob Wier  <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2311 -Reply

>|Concerning the 3D CD:
>|
>|Try re-witeable CD-ROMS. No minimum
>|requirements or need to have them
>|commercially produced and they can be
>|updated as well.
>|
>|RM

>It's my impression, though (to coin a phrase :-) that you can't
>read these in standard CD-ROM readers - but it's been awhile since
>I was looking at this technology. Has it changed?

A rewritable version was widely available a year or two ago, that could
not be read by a standard CD-ROM reader. There may be a new kind coming
out, but difference in wavelength might be an issue. I asked a person
I know to see whether there's more information available on the current
status of optical disc media.

John R


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