From: IZZYNX8@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (J.T. Wang)
Subject: Re: So are you dying for CDs, or what?
Date: 21 Jul 92 01:24:20 PDT

In article <92201.005628U43313@uicvm.uic.edu>, on 19 Jul 92 05:56:28 GMT,
U43313@uicvm.uic.edu writes:

>
>In article <rauser.711504933@sfu.ca>, rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser)
>says:
>>
>>     Just a question out of curiosity...how many of you out there in
>>Netland are anxious to purchase a CD unit, whether it be Turbo CD Duo,
>>Sega CD, or the ever mysterious Nintendo SNES CD (whenever they release
>>it)??
>>
>>     The Turbo Duo will be (please correct me if I'm mistaken) around
>>300 bucks, as will the Sega CD. My feeling is that it's worth it to purchase
>>a CD unit, because you can play your music CDs, and let's face it, CD games
>>are awesome. But do most of you think it's worth it? Let me hear...
>
>Sure it's worth it, but only if there is a lot of good quality software!
>It seems to me that the SEGA CD is only gonna get the titles that are available
>already on a computer and also games that will/are available on a cart. That
>doesn't sound too promising. ALso, the only title that I read about for the
>SNES CD is the 7th Guest, which is another computer title. HMmmm, let's see
>the SNES already has good sound and graphics, the addition of a CD player will
>only add extra music, levels (if they can spend enough time to create them), an
>d some FMV. The presention and endings of the games will be great but how is th
>e CD player gonna affect gameplay? The fact of the matter is, I don't think the
>CD player will. For the Genesis, anything will help it out (it doesnt have a be
>ter color pallette, rotation, scaling, stero sound,....) So it may be worth it
>for the Genesis, but not for the SNES. Than again, a SEGA owner can just purcha
>se a SNES action set for $100 and save $200 if they don't buy a SEGA CD. So, I
>guess where back to the original question, IS IT WORTH IT?? Also, I have read a
>bout some new media that will kick a CD. IT's suppose to be a card which is the
>size of a MasterCard and the storage capability of 2 Gigabytes! I think that it
> can hold the equivalent of a full motion picture or 12 music CD's. A final pro
>duct is suppose to be introduced late this year. It's being said that this new
>form of media will replace your cassettes, video tapes, and  CD's. What's funny
> is that I got this info off a monthly CD that my company subscribes too.
>

If you are talking about the flash-ram technology from Intel, you
in for a surprise. I read in some PC magazines that the flash-ram
will cost about $10-15/Megabyte to produce. So, a 2 Gigabyte card will
 cost $10,000-15,000! Compare that to CDs, a CD cost about $1.00
 (that's right one dollar) to press (mass produced and not counting
  the cost of the information in the CD of course). The flash-ram
  may be more better suited as a replacement of hard drives on portable
   computers. IMHO flash-ram will never live up to the low $/Meg of CD.
    Also, a typical CD (5") holds about 600 megabytes(not megabits) of
    information. Three and a half CD should comeup to about 2 Gig.

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