Re: [ARSCLIST] Retro Vinyl CDs

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:36 PM 5/3/2003 -0700, Paul T. Jackson wrote:
> I cannot translate your last sentence. Are the "they" Verbatim or the
> LP/reissue vendors? In any event, I cannot see confusion between blank CD
> media and pressed recordings on shellac, vinyl or polycarbonate.
> Mike
> mrichter@xxxxxxx
> http://www.mrichter.com/
>
> The Verbatim "Look like 45s printed information".  I have not seen these up
> close and I did not go to the store to look at these, but the information
> printed on the recordable CDs...that makes it resemble a 45rpm...will that
> be something (music or artist) other than what is/will actually be
> recorded/burned on the disc by the individual buying these...and if so,
> won't that create confusion for the bin hunters/collectors later on?

This is a blank CD so the size is about two-thirds that of a "45". The
appearance of the top is of the CD center hole surrounded by an annulus in
a bright color. That ring is surrounded by the outer black ring with a
"groove" printed on it. When finished, it will look like a shrunken 45 with
an oversize center hole and a handwritten "label". It resembles a 45 as a
bagel resembles a donut.

No one seems to be confused by the superficially identical DVD and CD;
what's the problem here? One cannot see that a rigid disc less than 5"
across in a jewel case is different from a flexible 7" in a sleeve?


Mike
mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/