Isn't there an old saying... (Score 1)

Something along the lines of: "Developers should stop asking 'Can we?' and start asking 'Should we?'" While I know this may be slightly redundant, considering what existing technology already offers TDK's proposed CDRW plans seem rather unnecessary. Shouldn't we be instead looking toward the improvement of DVD burning technology? Or making already existent CD burners more reliable at high speeds? I hate to come across sounding like a Troll, but TDK's point seems more to develop their own proprietary CD burning format than anything else. At the same time I question the reliability of this technology: Consumer CD burners aren't terribly reliable at high speeds, regardless of all the developments over the past while in burning technology. Now we're going to make it even easier to make errors in the burning process, by making the media even more sensative? On top of that, it's re-writable.... I rarely trust re-writable CDs as it is for anything terribly important, and combined with the potentially higher error rate, I doubt I'd actually ever trust one of these proposed burners for unless I'm forced to. Of course, it's still possible they'll pull it off somehow. That doesn't change the fact, however, that this means another format that we, as consumers, will have to upgrade to take advantage of (even just to read these new CDs, as I assume it'll take more than a simple software upgrade). While I understand that progress dictates that there'll be more formats over time, I again sense this particular one being designed less for the progress of information storage technology, and more to provide TDK with their own unique storage format. In the end, personally I'll keep hoping for some reliable form of DVDRW, and until then, I think normal CDRWs will suit most of my personal needs.