Hi Jon,
I asked one of our programmers/multimedia consultants what she
thought. The response is below-hope it helps.
-Karl G.
>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:12:48 -0500 (CDT)
>From: jo <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Karl Garsha <[log in to unmask]>
>cc: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Fwd: DVD RAM media help
>
>hi karl.
>
>i would assume general purpose dvd-rs are what they want. authoring
>disks may be made specifically to emulate multimedia disks (meaning they
>can simulate the web if designed that way). i would make sure the dvd
>is burned as an iso9660 format - which can be read my all platforms.
>
>i do have to say that although dvd-rs are much more handy (having one for
>4.7G of data as opposed to 8 cd-rs) it is still much cheaper to use the
>cd-rs since you can get them for 70 cents while dvd-rs are still 30 bucks.
>just my opinion.
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Karl Garsha
>wrote:
>
> > Hi Jo,
> > Do you have any suggestions regarding the problem below?
> >
> >
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> > >Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:10:09 -0400
> > >Reply-To: Confocal Microscopy List <[log in to unmask]>
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> > >From: Jon Ekman <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Subject: DVD RAM media help
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >We recently purchased a DVD RAM drive to assist with image storage for
> > >confocal and TEM microscope files. The problem is that our IT department
> > >and local venders don't know much about the media (The actual disks). We
> > >have two choices for DVD RAM disks: authoring or general use. Has anyone
> > >out there figured out which is the best for general microscopy
> > >images. The disks will travel between Mac's, PC's and LINUX/UNIX
> > >operating systems.
> > >
> > >TIA,
> > >
> > >Jon Ekman
> > >Florida State University
> > >Biological Science Imaging Resource
> > >119 Bio Unit I, 4370
> > >Tallahassee, FL 32306
> > >tel: 850.644.6519
> > >fax: 850.644.0481
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Karl Garsha
> > Specialist in Light Microscopy
> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > 405 North Mathews Avenue
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> > Room B650J
> > Tel: (217) 244-6292
> > Fax: (217) 244-6219
> > www.itg.uiuc.edu
> >
> >
>
>thanks
>jo
>__________________________________________________
>Jo Wozniak, Res. Prog., VMIL-ITG, Beckman Institute, UIUC
>405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
>(217)244-3074 (lab) (217)244-1780 (office)
>(217)244-6219 (fax) http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/
_______________________________________________
Karl Garsha
Specialist in Light Microscopy
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Room B650J
Tel: (217) 244-6292
Fax: (217) 244-6219
www.itg.uiuc.edu
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