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 JA>         The CDRs work quite well! You can "roll your own" in any
 JA> order you desire with point and click control. 
 JA>         The HP unit is down to $599 locally. The blanks can be
 JA> had for around $6.00 (US) a piece. 
 JA>         The nice part is being able to record the best tracks
 JA> from several favorite CD's and rolling them into 72 minutes of
 JA> great music..without a dude in the lot!
        72 minutes?  Point and click?  You must mean a cd recorder for
the PC?  Consumer stereo recorders limit you to 60 minutes on top of
SCMS copy protection (because the music industry has a bunch of
a$$holes running it who don't believe in innocent until proven
guilty; they must think this is Mexico.) I thought the PC ones were
incompatible with regular CD players.  Is this not true?
        If not, I might be interested in one to back up LPs with (such
as the 13 year old, out of print, Tron Soundtrack I bought recently
that's in excellent condition.  I don't want to put wear on the thing,
so I want to record it to CD and keep the record as an archive
master).
        But I don't like the idea of supporting something that's
practically unconstitutional like the whole SCMS/TAX/60-minute-limit
nonsense.  I also think the consumer stereo version has much higher
priced blanks--on the order of $15 a piece (as if the TAX, copy
protection, and 60-minute artificial limit weren't enough, you
couldn't possibly copy original CDs any at profitable rate at that
price anyways!  So why the limits?  New CDs are cheaper at the local
music store) I'd also want to use it to make CDs for the car.
        The PC drive doesn't have these limits, AFAIK, but I thought I
read in Stereo Review that PC audio discs won't play on a regular CD
player, which makes them useless, unless you have your PC drive
plugged into your main stereo or something.  Has this changed?
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