NDSA:Standards and Best Practices Working Group/Optical MeetingNotes/Discussion

Running out of time, John Spencer will present on MDisc at next month's meeting.

• Discussion
  • Spencer: Plextor: only been a year that current iteration of the company has been making their own drives and have dropped support for some of their software tools.
    • Observation that understand nature of companies - rebranding burners.
  • Passmore: Optidrive (?), other software
  • Duryee: Secondary market now for equipment - price spike in true quality plextor drives - going for a lot used before bought by another company (current iteration of brand).
  • Blood: we’re always talking about a system - drive from trusted manufacturer, CD that isn’t playing, sometimes a cheap player can help resolve playability issue.
  • Youket: differences in disc composition - many different dyes with different patents - that’s why focus was on developing and using error checkers.
  • Blood: Interest in how to optimize burn speeds to get low error rates. Batch variation: Mitsui sold 4 times in 5 years.