Re: 3D CD, Image Formats, and CD-RW

[P3D Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Adam L. Beckerman wrote:
> 
> Just because I KNOW Dan will be sending a reply to Bob M's comments,
> I figured I'd help him out a bit.  Bob was suggesting marketing plans and
> companies to do the CD printing, and although these have been suggested
> before, Dan has assured us that the CD will be a 'vanity' CD with no
> intention of creating a profitable product (just one to call our own) that
> hopefully breaks even.  He will be manually burning the CDs with a CD
> Writer that he has access to.  So Bob, you can forget the Ferrari...
> 
> As for the discussion of Image Formats on the CD, I have a feeling Dan
> will be telling us (and correct me if I'm wrong) that he's going to leave it up
> to the people submitting the images.  The CD will be primarily in HTML with
> all images linked from the 'web' pages.  Existing web pages are what will
> be used, so _presumably_ the existing images will also be included.  That
> means while browsing the CD, you can view any images that are available
> as long as you have the capability to do so in the format they are already in.
> I don't think Dan is going to be doing mass image file manipulations to be
> sure that EVERY image on the CD exists in all of the different formats.
> 
> As far as CD-RW goes, this is from the Library Systems Newsletter that I
> get at work (not that Dan is going to spend $600 for the hardware either):
> 
> Ricoh Shows CD-RW Hardware
> 
> Ricoh has been showing its new MP 6200S CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drive
> at hardware conferences around the country.  The $599 unit is the first to
> offer rewritable capability and a SCSI-2 interface.  The finished CDs produced
> on the system are compatible with existing CD-ROM players, and will also
> be forward-compatible with future DVD players.  [Contact:  Ricoh; telephone
> 800-955-3453.]
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Adam

Thanks Adam... You said it better than me, I just replied before reading
all the mail... =(

Dan
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Dan Shelley
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