Yamaha to show their new CD-R drawing technology at CeBit

February 15, 2002

CDRLabs.com has a nice article on a new 'invention' by Yamaha:

Yamaha will be be demonstrating something new that they've been working on at the upcoming CeBit convention. Yamaha originally announced this new technology in Japanese, but they were nice enough to provide us with a little bit of information on it in English:

Yamaha announces the development of a new CD-R/RW laser pickup control technology that enables the 'drawing' of characters and pictures on CD-R discs. This new technology will be demonstrated at the CeBIT (Mar. 2002) in Hanover, Germany.

Yamaha has utilized the CAV technology in all its CD-R/RW drives as Yamaha firmly believes that the CAV system is the most suitable writing control method for high speed recording. The CAV method allows the disc rotation speed to be kept constant while the velocity of pick up laser power is continuously adjusted, letting the disc to be written at both optimum speed and quality. Yamaha has been able to improve both the laser power and the disc rotation control capability significantly and that has allowed much further precision which affords the CD-RW recorder to write and draw characters and picture on the CD-R disc. This ability allows the user to write any type of 'memo' such as 'date', 'contents', 'logo', 'pictures' etc. on the un-used area of the disk.

Well it seems like a nice feature to me We'll have to wait and see how it actually works... Read the full article here.