| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: CDR / 700mg
by Big_D | 05/10/01 at 19:38:16
It appears that the 700mg / 80 minute CDR is becoming more popular. I have used some and have found that though they work well enough in my recorder they have a high rejection rate in my duplicator. My inquiries have led me to discover that they are structurally different in that the burn tracks (my term) are narrower than those of the 650 mg / 74 minute variety. Apparently it is reported that they may not play well in boom boxes or Walkman type CD players. The company which manufactures my duplicator informs me that there is no solution at this time. My question (yes there is one) is this: Is the 700mg / 80 minute CDR a replacement for the 74 minute CDR which will be fazed out or is it merely another option for the consumer? If it's a replacement then I suppose I should buy all the 74 minute CDR's I can get my hands on to ensure a reliable supply. Right now I have a line on some Yamaha Gold 4x with jewel case at $.15 a piece and am debating as to whether I should order a few thousand. Right now I burn about a thousand CD's a year. Also, is there a shelf life on these things? Thanks for any info you can supply.
Subject: Re: CDR / 700mg
by Jim | 05/11/01 at 18:24:17
To be honest I don't think these will be a replacement. If I understand the reason why the 80 minute CDs came out it was for software duplication.
Many software manufactures deliberately began to use more tracks to keep folks from pirating the software. What they began doing was recording either misc files or just usless bits of data to exceed the capacity of the common 74 minute CDs. So as the market demanded...the CD-R manufacturers came out with the 80 and I believe there is even a denser media with over 100 minutes in the manufacturing sector, but it looks like watermarking will become the defacto before much longer.
I would think that since the majority of CD players don't recognize the 80 minutes for anything other than data the 74s won't be fading away anytime soon, but that is just my opinion. I think that because the market is really in the consumer audio field with all of the ripping and downloadable music I don't believe it is going to just up and die. If you remember the Mini-disk was suppose to conquer the outdated CD market, but it didn't. I don't think folks are going to spend another few hundred bucks and change habits for an extra 6-10 minutes of music.