Novel???? (Score 1)

This idea isn't particularly novel. Anyone with half a brain (e.g. me) has probably thought of it before (well I have anyway). I would assume everyone with a full brain has thought of it before.... So that doesn't leave that many people who haven't thought of it before. The sucessful implementation is novel. However, I wonder now as I always have how successful it'll be. I assume the stamped data portion will still need to have the dye as with the writable layer. The dye will of course be unmarked. The whole metal layer will have to be silver or gold or a combo as with normal CDRs not aluminium. For there 2 reasons, I wonder how well the CDs will work. The dye in the stamped portion could change and this will have negative effects. Assuming they somehow managed to make it so the dye is only needed in the writable portion and the ATIP, things are a bit better. Although I wonder whether the extra reflective metal layer will cause problems.... In any case, it's still going to cost more because of the dye and metal then a normal CD. The process will probably make it cost more then a normal CDR as well. I suspect of course that in large quantities, the replication issue will make them cheaper then burning a lot of normal CDRs and of course, the quality will be somewhat better (although bear in mind what I said before, how much better is circumspect). Although the difference per CD may seem tiny, the quantities were talking about are big enough to make a large difference in the bottom line. Not to mention given that they will mostly be used by the dumb users who will be too stupid to import the previous session and so will 'lose' the data already on the CD.... Not to mention the issue of lawsuits and bad publisity when someone adds stuff to one of these CD and sells it or leave it around and of course when people lose their precious data contained on the cd... No it seems like a bad idea to me which is why me and other half and full brainers out there never bothered to try out the idea...