Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!gdt!ee9njfm From: ee9njfm@midge.bath.ac.uk (N J F Markwick) Subject: Re: Differences between Panasonic CR-562 vs CR-563 ??????? Message-ID: Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK References: <2t0dvi$iag@panix2.panix.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 10:49:01 GMT Lines: 21 In the referenced article, mreg@panix.com (Mitch Regenbogen) writes: >George Aligianis (galig@hertz.mech.wits.ac.za) wrote: >: Hi > >: Can anyone tell me the differences between the two drives? Apparently they >: are both made by Panasonic, but the one was made for Creative Labs, the >: CR563. Panasonic then decided to market it itself and were sued and >: Panasonic had to remove a ROM chip in order to sell it. Anyone know anymore >: about this? > >The drives are mechanically and electronically identical, _except_ that >the 562 lacks the digital output of the 563. As far as anyone can tell, >the digital output has no use and may never have. Except when Creative start selling their Video Blaster card - which as far as I know, needs the digital output... What the difference is between this digital output and the digital data output that gets sent to the computer, I have no idea :) niel.