[MacDV] Re: CDs to use for VCDs

[Ric Perrott]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 05:26  PM, John Leonard wrote:

>> This is absolutely false. If it were true you could just use data 
>> CD-Rs
>> in a standalone CD recorder and not pay the extra $$ right? Well, you
>> can't.
>
> Well, that depends on what you mean by a stand-alone recorder. Both my
> stand-alone recorders - a Marantz and an HHB, work with discs that 
> fall into
> categories 2 and 3 above. The Marantz pre-dates the licence-paid CDs 
> and the
> HHB works fine with non-licence paid audio and data CDs. Therefore, in 
> my
> world at least, what you wrote is not exactly correct.

Sorry. but just because *you* happen to have an older machine that 
pre-dates the flagging in no way means that anyone here can simply 
purcahse data CDRs and record on them successfully in deck-based CD 
Recorder.

Regardless, the first poster claimed there was absolutely no 
difference, I pointed out that there was in fact a difference.

What I wrote is perfectly correct, unless you are being overly pedantic.

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