Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sunic!ugle.unit.no!pcb13.kjemi.unit.no!user From: skuland@alkymi.unit.no (Oystein Skuland) Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia Subject: Re: Using PhotoCD disks for CD-R? Followup-To: comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 18:36:50 -0500 Organization: Org. Chemistry Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pcb13.kjemi.unit.no In article , lleung@tor.hookup.net (Lawrence Leung) wrote: > Just wondering if blank PhotoCD disks can be used instead of CD-R disks for > CDROM burning (in a Pinnacle RCD-202)? Assuming you can just buy blank > PhotoCD's of course! A blank CD-R costs about $40 Cdn, and the cost for a > PhotoCD is $10 Cdn (when you send a roll of film to get processed). Anyone > tried this? > > ---------------------- > Lawrence Leung > Institute For Learning > lleung@tor.hookup.net One might think one is smart and believe that ones idea has never been thought of before, but there are always some other that have tried it anyway, or at least made sure that ones idea will not work. That is at least true this time. Basically is there no different between the two disc, but Kodak has made a precut on the CD-that gives your mastering software an error message. I have myself the exact same burner as Kodak uses to cutting PhotoCD; Kodak Writer 200+. and I uses MacOnCD. I tried with an empty PhotoCD tha I got from my local PhotoDealer. Well I was all exited. Man those real cheap disc. Only $7 a piece. But what a failure. The software would not eccept the disc. And I know it is the software since Kodak uses the same writer. If someone ot there could write a new software piece for cutting CD I believe that you could use the Photo Disc but than again it would be difficult to get the disk itself. Cherio Hope for falling price on writeable CD!! :)