New Disc format to
discs look like CDs an inch (2.5 centimeters) across and are housed in plastic cartridges. They can store any kind of data, including video and software and are attractive to the music industry because they are strong on copyright protection |
Who's Involved?
Toshiba and Samsung, which are planning to make players for the discs. Three big music companies -- BMG, Universal and EMI -- are going to put out music discs |
Will
cost about $16 when they are released in stores in early June and can contain up to five albums of music and some music companies will release the discs with hidden extra albums, which can be activated by entering codes bought at their Web sites for $8 to $13 |
But
Data can only be written to the discs, not erased and Dataplay incorporates safeguards to prevent songs sold on the discs from being copied to computers, a major plus for the music industry |
My guess this will go the way of 8 tracks ,what's your take?
Source: CNN-Sci-Tech
