CR & CRW RECORDERS |
| byTed Peterson |
| CR & CD-RW recorders have all changed both what they
can do, and the total cost in 2002. What was printed about them in 12001
is now all out of date. |
| Untill the early 90's you could not own a CR recorder in
the US. The recording companys had the US Government passed a law that if
you wanted to record on a CD you had to go outside the US. This law
changed in the early 90's and now we can have a CD Recorder |
| CD's are a way to store a little over 630 megs of memory,
(most people will list 650 but most CD will not go over 640 megs of
space.) If you are picking up a CD recorder only make sure you buy one
that is a multi-tasking. Some of the old one's are not, and if you have
one of the old ones you will not be able to add a item on the CD after
stopping the first time. |
| Most of the CDR recorders that are on the market now will
record at 4X but will play back at from 24X and up. They can be used as a
CD player only when you are not recording |
| There are three types of CD recorders for sale. I have all
3 of them. |
| The first types of CD sold for the US market were the ones
like the Pinnacle Micro Recordable CD. They were good, but any CD recorded
on them could not be read on a regular CD player. You had to use that
recorder to be able to read that CD. The cost, when I picked it up in
1993, was $1,500.00. They are no longer being sold. |
| The second groups are the ones like the Philips CD
Recorders. Any CD recorded on them could be read on any CD player that
will play at 4X on higher. The main draw back that these CD recorders had
was that a CD made on one of them could not be read on any CDs player that
was slower then 4X. They are also no longer being made. |
| The 3rd type of CD recorders are what are the Rewritable
Recorders. This is the type that are for sale at this time. The cost will
be from $100.00 and up. |
| The CD on these CD recorders can be recorded over and over
up to 5 times on the same disk, but these disks cost about 3 times the
cost of blank CDs. |
| You can make regular CDs by using the CDR disks. These
disks will cost from $.10 to $.79 each (less then the cost of a Zip disk
but with over 6 times the space) |
| The cost of these recorders can be any thing from $100.00
to $400.00 . They can be SCSI, Printer port connections, USB, built in,
etc. Most of them will record at 4X and all the new ones will play back at
24X or more. I have 3 of them. The first one is one built in to my big old
computer. The next one is a small one (about the size of a VHS tape) that
plugs into my laptop. The 3rd one is in my new desktop computer and with
it I can make a 100 meg CD in about 4 minutes. |
| Some of the CD recorder will lose about 6 megs of space
between the last item on your disk and the new item placed on at a
different time.
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| With the price of blank CD's under 30 cents the price of
the labels the same you can make backups for you computer. You can place
640 megs on a disk and therefor if you have 1300 megs on your C drive it
would only take 2 CDs. You can also save anything that you have been
saving on your hard drive, 3 1/2" disks, and zip. I save every thing on
CDs, even files under 100 megs. In the past I wanted to save some thing
and saved it on a 3 1/2" and then forgot about it and saved some thing
over it. You cannot do this with a CD as once it is recorded it is there
forever. |
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