Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situational awareness, the guy flying the plane is culpable." After Seagraves' immunity deal, the two front-seat crewmen were charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for allegedly destroying the videotape. In exchange for avoiding charges including negligent homicide, Seagraves will tell what was on the erased (not blank, as has been reported in some quarters) videocassette found in a camera on the plane, and what happened to the tape that the two accused crewmen allegedly removed and asked Seagraves to help...
...catch? Blank music CDs are still expensive. CD-R music discs cost $6 to $10 apiece, CD-RW discs a whopping $18 to $25. That's thanks in part to a royalty agreement with the recording industry, which also requires that a special "copyright flag," or signal, be embedded on blank discs and that CD recorders accept only these flagged discs. That has kept the price of recordable CDs for music artificially high; virtually identical recordable CDs for computers by contrast are relatively cheap...
...little prerecorded music available in the MiniDisc format, but Sony and others are pushing the MiniDisc for its ability to make recordings of existing CDs and its potential for replacing analog cassettes in portable or car audio systems. MiniDiscs are durable, easily erasable and fit into a shirt pocket. Blank discs cost $4 to $6 each...
Computer makers and webmasters aren't waiting for the music industry to sort things out. With the price of CD-R drives for PCs falling and CD-R blank computer discs (unburdened by copyright flags or royalties) selling for as little as a buck apiece, many computers are better equipped than home stereos to enter the digital-recording era. Even better recording technology is on its way: DVD-RAM and DVD-RW are erasable discs that can hold up to eight times as much data (or music) as CD-R discs. All this is not lost on the tech-wary...
...Manhattan clubs on the festival's website (at www.intelfest.com in hopes of stirring interest in digital-music delivery. Missed it? No problem. You can simply download selected tracks and--if you have a CD-R and software from a little company called Liquid Audio--save them on a blank...